performance by wen yau
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.
– I repeat the same sentence more than a thousand times and it becomes more than truth.
Documentary of my work “Wish You Were Here” (HD, 17’10’,’ 2014) is featured in the Performance Art Video platform.
Read more “Performance Art Video: “Wish You Were Here” (2014)”
Read more “Wir sind das Volk!: The Unspoken Spell Cast on the Peaceful Revolutionaries”
Thanks for the generous support from the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, I presented a live performance at HALLE 14, Leipzig as part of the exhibition “The Ends of Freedom” on 7/11/2019, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.
Read more “Wir sind das Volk! (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries) (performance)”
– a performance-lecture, 9/07/2019, grunt gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Read more “As the curtain fell… (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries)”
Invited by the Performance Art Network CH (PANCH), I presented a performance-lecture titled Researching the Restiveness: This is NOT a Performance; This is NOT an Ethnography in the symposium Archives of the Ephemeral. Thinking, Practicing, Interconnecting – A Debate on the Accessibility of Performance Art in Switzerland.
Invited by the Taipei Arts Festival, I joined the Think Bar and a panel discussion following the lecture by Florian Malzacher.
Read more “不只是現實的一面鏡子──尋找當代的政治劇場 Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the Political Theatre of Today”
In the Performance Studies International (PSi#24) conference, I presented a paper titled Performative Autoethnography as a Tactical Research Methodology in Activism about my recent research on the performative practices of Hong Kong artists in social movements in Hong Kong. I also took part in the PSi Future Advisory Board Summer School.
