Hong-Kai Wang: Listening as collaboration; we like the perceivable messiness

Ort | Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, DG 12b

Under the title “Fantastic Wednesday” on Wednesdays of the once-monthly seminar weeks, the PhD in Practice opens its doors to the Academy, friends, and other interested people from 6pm till 9pm. Program participants (individually or collaboratively) use DG 12, one of the attics at the academy, to present their work in progress and experiment with different formats of presentation.
Hong-Kai Wang | Listening as collaboration; we like the perceivable messiness Photo courtesy of Living Labor Conference
Hong-Kai Wang will present a second installment of her ongoing research-based collaboration with the curator Nova Benway for The Public School New York. The first iteration took place at ‘Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies’ conference at New York University on 13 April 2014.

Born in Huwei, Taiwan, Hong-Kai Wang works with listening as a conceptual tool to explore social relations and the (re)construction of cultural memory, focused on a collaborative and process-driven approach to production. Wang has presented her work at Kunsthall Trondheim (NO), Para Site (HK), Museum of Modern Art (US), Arnold Schoenberg Center (AT), Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (JP), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (CA) among others.