Arthub Favorite: Week 73: Wu Tsang Performance at Antenna Space

Wu TSANG: Sustained Glass

Duration: 2017 September 23 – November 2
Opening: 2017 September 23, 18:00-20:00
Venue: Antenna Space, 202, 50 Moganshan Rd, Building 17, Shanghai, China
Opening Performance: Spooky Distancing II, in collaboration with Arthub, by Wu Tsang x boychild, 20:00-20:30

Antenna Space just opened its new exhibition “Wu Tsang: Sustained Glass.” The artist’s first solo exhibition in mainland China, “Sustained Glass” features We Hold Where Study, a new two-channel video growing out of Wu’s collaboration with the poet Fred Moten, and a series of stained-glass and lightbox works that the artist has created after her close study of Antenna’s spatial context. Standing in dialogue with each other, the video and the sculptural works constitute a comprehensive spatial production that holds the artist’s rumination on lifeness, movement, and communicability.

As a long-term friend with Antenna Space and Wu Tsang, Arthub is more than delighted to support this project and expand it. On the night of the opening, Wu Tsang presented a performance with long-term collaborator and performance artist boychild titled Spooky Distancing II. Arthub has conducted an interview between Alvin Li and Wu Tsang, addressing issues related to the motivation of the performance and the connection between her previous works and this new chapter. Arthub will share the interview documentation and behind the scenes soon on Arthub s digital platform and exhibition space in Shanghai.

About artist

WU TSANG’s films, installations, performances, and sculptures move fluidly between documentary, activism, and fiction. Her projects have been presented at museums and film festivals internationally, including MoMA (New York), Tate Modern (London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MCA (Chicago), MOCA (Los Angeles), Berlinale Film Festival (Berlin), SANFIC (Santiago), Hot Docs Festival (Toronto), and South by Southwest Film Festival (Austin). Her first feature film WILDNESS (2012) premiered at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, and her work was also featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial and in “The Ungovernables” New Museum Triennial in New York. She has received grants from Creative Capital, the Warhol Foundation, and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.