Ming Wong

Ming Wong lives and works in Berlin. Born in 1971, he represented Singapore during the 53rd Venice Biennale and won a prize there for Life of Imitation. His work has been presented at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing, at the Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo, at Redcat Los Angeles, at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, at Performa New York, at the Biennale de Lyon, the Shanghai, Liverpool and Sydney biennales. Ming Wong is interested in cinema and popular culture as a medium for observing the construction of identities that are reproduced and circulated. Through translations and imperfect recreations of classics from world cinema, his videos, photographs, installations and performances seek out the abnormalities that haunt notions of authenticity and originality. In Tales from the Bamboo Spaceship, both work in progress, performed talk, Chinese science fiction story, the story takes place in an intermediate space, between stage and screen. Drawing on his ongoing research into the unconscious relationships between Chinese opera and science fiction films, Ming Wong explores how one of the oldest forms of performance art in the world could be used to explore the notion of future.