Paul Wong Claiming Public Space
Type of Performance: Media Artist Screening
Dates: September 16th @ 6:30pm
Venue: SAW Gallery
Runtime: 75 mins (includes Q&A time)
Ticket Prices: Free
Paul Wong is an award winning artist and curator based in Vancouver. He is presenting a video screening and artist talk focusing on his new and recent public art projects that will include Occupying Chinatown, a one year City of Vancouver artists residency.
This is the first Artist Talk and Screening of Wong’s recent interdisciplinary and media art works in Ottawa in over a decade. It is not to be missed!
The illustrated talk will focus on art projects in public spaces including large scale architectural video mapping projections, commissioned neon for the Audain Art Museum, an outdoor video installation for Vancouver Opera and projects related to Occupying Chinatown in his year long residency commissioned by the City of Vancouver.
- Year of Gif (2013) commissioned by Surrey Art Gallery
- No Thing is Forever (2016) commissioned by Audain Art Museum
- Five Octave Range (2017) commissioned by Vancouver Opera
- Winners & Loser’s (2017) video mapping commissioned by Vancouver Art Gallery and Burrard Art Foundation
- Troublemaker’s 3.0 (2018)
- Occupying Chinatown (2019) commissioned by City of Vancouver Public Art Program
- Pride In Chinatown (2019) produced by On Main Gallery, Alternative Pride Festival
