
Ming Wong
Wayang Spaceship, 2022
Single channel video
25'00''
Edition of 5 plus 2 A.P.
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This video work was first exhibited in 'Wayang Spaceship', a large-scale outdoor installation commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum in 2022, which Wong created. Here, 'wayang' refers to Chinese street...
This video work was first exhibited in "Wayang Spaceship", a large-scale outdoor installation commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum in 2022, which Wong created. Here, "wayang" refers to Chinese street opera in Singapore, which is performed on a makeshift wooden stage. It is also used as slang for deliberate theatricality. Next to a container site that hints towards the country's history of development through trade and immigration, Wong had set up a Wayang stage made with metallic, reflective materials that mimic a spaceship. Shown on a screen surrounded by rainbow-coloured fluorescent lights was a video collage that merged Cantonese opera footage from the 1950s to the 1970s with sci-fi films and his own video works. The protagonist, a scholar warrior - Wong's alter ego - embarks on a journey in the Wayang Spaceship through time, space and gender, in a strange trance created by a remix of Cantonese opera music, sci-fi sound effects, and flickering lights.
Exhibitions
2023 "宇宙歌劇 Cosmic Theatre", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo2022 "Wayang Spaceship", Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
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