Ming Wong
Windows On The World (Part 1), 2014
HD video with audio, looped and masked for circular projection
3' 11''
This installation was done in collaboration with Thomas Tsang / DeHow Projects, commissioned by ParaSite Art Space / Spring Workshop for the group exhibition Islands Off the Shores of Asia....
This installation was done in collaboration with Thomas Tsang / DeHow Projects, commissioned by ParaSite Art Space / Spring Workshop for the group exhibition Islands Off the Shores of Asia.
As part of Wong’s long-term endeavour on the unconscious relationships between sci-fi and Cantonese opera, the structure built in the exhibition departs from the oceanic landscape appearing in Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) and its infinite horizon of islets. In this work the vortex of space conquest collides with the vortex of antiquity, becoming a site where a Chinese sci-fi plot is imagined.
As one walks into the Kubrick-esque ‘tunnel’ (fashioned out of wood and fabric), dotted with translucent portholes, the soft strains of Cantonese opera grow louder. At the end of the tunnel, the vanishing point, a looped video is screened of Wong in spacesuit gear, tumbling and arcing through the air to the opera aria Princess ZhaoJun Crosses the Border.
Vimeo link (circle version) :
https://vimeo.com/792389844/01fbbc84bb
As part of Wong’s long-term endeavour on the unconscious relationships between sci-fi and Cantonese opera, the structure built in the exhibition departs from the oceanic landscape appearing in Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) and its infinite horizon of islets. In this work the vortex of space conquest collides with the vortex of antiquity, becoming a site where a Chinese sci-fi plot is imagined.
As one walks into the Kubrick-esque ‘tunnel’ (fashioned out of wood and fabric), dotted with translucent portholes, the soft strains of Cantonese opera grow louder. At the end of the tunnel, the vanishing point, a looped video is screened of Wong in spacesuit gear, tumbling and arcing through the air to the opera aria Princess ZhaoJun Crosses the Border.
Vimeo link (circle version) :
https://vimeo.com/792389844/01fbbc84bb
