HONG-KAI WANG
 
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Hong-Kai Wang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Taipei, Taiwan who works across exhibition making, performance, publication, and workshop that involve collective, pedagogical, and embodied practices of sociality. Her research-based practice is informed by the unceasing tension between languages, ideologies, identities, and knowledge regimes. By attending to and contending with the questions of auditory perception and the politics of knowing, Wang’s work seeks to reveal different modes of attention, further conceiving of emergent time-spaces that critically interweave histories of labor, economies of co-habitation, formations of knowledge, and production of desire.

Wang has presented her interdisciplinary practice internationally. Recent solo projects were shown at the following venues: Centre d'art Ygrec-ENSAPC (Paris), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (radio: Madrid), Artspeak (Vancouver), Theater Commons Tokyo (Tokyo), Kadist & The Lab (San Francisco), Lydgalleriet (Bergen), Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg), etc. Group exhibitions at institutions including: Gallery TPW (Toronto), Sonic Topologies (Zurich, organized by ETH), Ulsan Arts Museum (Ulsan), Arts Maebashi (Maebashi), MMAG Foundation (Amman), Asia Art Biennial 2019 (Taichung), Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2019 (Yokohama), SculptureCenter (New York), dOCUMENTA 14 (radio: Athens, Barranquilla, Berlin, Beirut, Douala, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, Washington DC), Taipei Biennial (Taipei), Liquid Architecture (Melbourne & Sydney), Museum of Modern Art New York, among others. She was one of the represented artists at the Taiwan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.


As an educator, Wang has taught at École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy (2022-2023), Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (2016-2022), and National Taipei University of Arts (2019). She has conducted seminars and workshops at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Princeton University, Cornell University, Boston University, Tokyo University of the Arts, Swedish Royal Institute of Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Ale School of Fine Arts and Design, York University, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Dutch Art Institute, among others. In addition, Wang has regularly collaborated with the independent art education program Spring Sessions in Amman and KUNCI Cultural Studies Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta.