Kacey Wong (born 1970) is a Hong Kong artist and educator - formerly Assistant Professor at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wong has received the Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Award by the Hong Kong Art Museum (2012), Best Artist Award (2010); and Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award (2003).
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Early life and education
Wong Kwok-choi was born in 1970 in Hong Kong. Due to concerns about Hong Kong's future at the time, Wong was sent away at the age of 14 to Long Island in the United States as a high school student. The name he chose "Kacey" comes from his Chinese name initials. Wong was accepted at Cornell University, from which he earned a bachelor's degree in Architecture. He has trained internationally as an architect and artist. His sculptures explore philosophical ideas that involve the body of viewers. He has a master's degree in Sculpture at Chelsea College of Arts. Wong also obtained a Doctorate in Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2003.
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Careers
After graduating from university, Wong worked as an architect for nearly six years in New York, Japan, and Hong Kong, in the fields of graphics, interior design and architecture. He arranges in independent practice. Finding that the professional world as an architect does not allow for the degree of freedom he wants, he abandoned his professional career with good pay and went on to continue his studies in England. After completing a master's program in London in 1998, Wong returned to Hong Kong and taught sculpture and art appreciation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for two years. Wong then became Assistant professor in design school at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, until 2015.
In 2003, Wong was awarded the Rising Artist Award by the Hong Kong Arts Council and Outstanding Arts Education Award. Hong Kong Museum of Art awarded the Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Award to Wong in 2012.
Working
Wong states that most people take for granted what they have, and perhaps without identity or culture. Wong said his self-consciousness, and what he represented Hong Kong, came from the years he spent abroad. He says that only by living in the midst of a second culture can be fully aware of what is represented and where a person is coming from. A thread that flows through most of his work is the idea of ​​home, homelessness and wandering. Since 2011, his repertoire has taken on a political dimension.
Space
Home (1999), Personal Skyscraper (2000), and City Space (2001) are exhibitions in which Wong is a participant and curator.
"10 Boxes: Everything I Think I Put In a Box" in 2000 was Wong's first solo exhibition. A series of ten statues, housed on a box wall, each with its own name, explores different themes or spatial relationships. For example, Office Block represents a power structure within a company; Only You is based on romantic relationships; Destroy Them treats subjects like education and childhood influences.
In 2008, Wong created Wandering Home , an installation comprised of a conceptualized home car on city life and homeless, which was featured at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. The small tin hut behind the tricycle is a comment about Hong Kong society, and the suffering of people who sleep on the streets and who are forced to move periodically by government officials. The HK $ 5,000 fee to make, the house is not exactly a practical solution for the homeless, but the concept was tried on street youth in Sham Shui Po. In 2008, Wong created Tin Man No.11 , an in-room essay in the form of a metal robot turned into a bed. He expanded the concept by creating Famiglia Grande , a series of mutable cases. In 2009, Wong attended the Handover Festival in Hamburg as a skyscraper.
The work of Paddling Home, a floating house 4Ã, ft ÃÆ'â € Ã, 4Ã, ft (1.2, mÃÆ'ÃÆ'Ã, 1,2Ã,m), was set to sea in January 2010. Work, symbolizes Hong Kong property market where accommodation has high density, small and expensive, selected in Hong Kong & amp; Shenzhen Municipal Biennale from Urbanism Architecture Exhibition that year. The design includes wall tiles, wooden floors, bay windows, television, air conditioning, roof space for riding a few golf balls and a 5-horsepower outboard motor. It was rewarded with the symbol HK $ 888,888 ($ 114,000). Wong said that, since the price of the square foot is [an astronomy] HK $ 55,555, Paddling Home is an ironic statement comparing the dangers of having a luxurious and luxurious upscale residence located at the height of the ocean. When asked in 2012, Wong said that he considers Paddling Home the most challenging job to date.
He published a photography book, Drift City 2000-2010, as the culmination of a ten-year project in which he traveled the world and ordained himself as a cardboard skyscraper in different environments as a critique of modernism. For the project, Wong collected images from more than 20 locations around the world, including one in the Egyptian pyramids made when he and his wife were on their honeymoon in 2002. The picture took three hours of art lectures to police demanding substantial " ".
Environmentalism
Wong became interested in the environment through visiting Hong Kong's waste reprocessing center, and realized how little was recycled. His works reuse or recycle materials obtained from junk tips. In 2010, Wong curated "Memory of the Forest", a collection of animal statues by himself and 13 students made using discarded wood, symbolizing lost animal habitats. Wong donated "Mega Musical Art Piece" which is similar to Hong Kong's 2012 Cleanup campaign in the form of an octopus. Wong participated in the Ocean Recovery Alliance campaign in Hong Kong in April 2013, contributing Death by Amputation - a living finned shark statue - to an exhibition at Stanley harbor in the hope that it will provoke thoughts about food sources and the cruelty inflicted by humans in animals. In 2014, as part of an animal-themed exhibit with other artists, it launches Ball Ball, an impressive statue of another one-eyed cat made of discarded wood.
Protest Art
Wong cited his political revival in 2011, following the arrest of land artist Ai Weiwei. He responded by forming a group called Art Citizens (????), and gathered about 2,000 artists to line up for Ai on April 23rd. As a curator for the group, he collects a month-long exhibition opening on May 26th under the name "Love the Future" (???) - a game for Ai's name - with the work of more than 50 artists. Wong's own show, the statue of Caonima (alpaca), is one of the stars of the show. Since then, Wong has been renowned for his alluring performance at a public demonstration that draws attention to Hong Kong's political situation.
Pleased to quote Ai, Wong believes that art and politics can not be separated, and that there is no art entirely without political connotations. Wong saw art as one of the organic elements in a mix of political movements, playing an indirect and additional role. He has participated in the July 1st annual rally by riding a pink armored personnel carrier, walking around with a facsimile washing machine in his head, and guiding the 10-foot red robot he created. For the march on July 1, 2014, Wong created the "Warning Forces", where he and several people dressed as police officers holding a parody banner inspired by those increasingly seen being used by police officers in protest. The signs include "Love the Party" - echoing the CPC slogan "Love the country, love the Party" (????) - "Fake Commie"; "Party-State" refers to a one-party state in China; "Redness" refers to the gradual infiltration of the communist ethos to Hong Kong; "Land Grabbing" refers to land acquisition for development in the Northeast New Territories.
Wong was very active during the Umbrella Revolution: he held a contest for the best logos to raise awareness and generate more attention to the "universal suffrage" request for Hong Kong. Using social media as a "secure platform" for universal participation, it generates considerable awareness and receives entries from around the world. Wong held a session where he would draw a person's portrait in a minute without looking at the paper - a concept inspired by Nelson Mandela's saying "It always seems impossible to finish." He also founded the Preservation of Umbrella Art Movement, to create an inventory of their work and locations in protest venues, aimed at saving key pieces before police permission.
For his private exhibition in March 2015 titled "Refusing Against Absurdity", Wong reunited pieces he had made for the previous protest marches and added new works: specifically the Black Cop Candle - a set of wax statues from police in riot gear and lifting sticks. It symbolizes seven "black" (meaning corrupt) policemen who beat up a protester and who were caught in the film during the 2014 demonstration; lighting a candle will melt it and turn it into light.
In a march protesting the loss of Causeway Bay Books staff in 2015, Wong symbolically built red pillars carrying Chinese characters for "kidnapping" (??), tying himself with a red rope and clogging himself with red tape.
Other roles
Wong founded Street Design Union to study and advance the role of artist and designer in the socio-political field. Since 2001, he has taken a "Personal Skyscraper Workshop" to elementary school to encourage children to admire the architecture. He did this by making the students make architectural clothing that could be worn with foam boards and papers.
In 2016, M in Hong Kong commissioned Wong to create "M Rover" - a mobile gallery for their school outreach program. The Rover was created from a hollow container where mounted wooden interiors use a used palette to create whale shades.
Personal
Wong is a big fan of war games - an activity he does every week that he says helps mental agility. He also likes diving. Wong and his wife, Margaret, live with Ballball - a cat who loses his eye in an accident. Wong chose to adopt him because of another cat because he is unique. Wong said: "Imagine you have to go to a pet store and ask for a one-eyed cat... 'Sorry we did not do that' would be his response."
References
External links
- Official website , Kacey Wong
- Kacey Wong, what next 30 x 30
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