As part of the Gatherings response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Matt Jones spokevirtually with Annie Wong, a T’karonto/Toronto-based performance and installation artist. Most notably, they discuss Wong’s recent production of A Choir of Demands and Desires on Repeat, originally staged at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and later reimagined for a performance on Zoom.
A Choir in Demands and Desires of Repeat, in collaboration with Faith Arkorful, Fiona Raye Clarke, Hanan Hazime, Angela Sun, and Rebecca Sweets (Toronto). Photo by Yuula Benivolski © Gardiner Museum 2018. Used with permission of the artist.
A Choir of Demands and Desires on Repeat performed on Zoom (2020). Used with permission of the artist.
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Annie Wong is a writer and multidisciplinary artist working in performance and installation. Conceptually diverse, her practice explores the intersections between the political and poetic in everyday life, intergenerational feminist anger, the melancholy of ancestral amnesia, and hauntologies of diasporic displacement. Wong has presented across North America including at the Toronto Biennale of Art, Studio XX, SBC Gallery (Montreal, QC), and Third Space Gallery (Saint John, NB). She has been awarded residencies with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Power Plant (Toronto, ON), The Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax, NS), Banff Centre for Creativity and Art (Banff, AL), and the Varley Art Gallery. Her recent literary works in poetry, art writing, and non-fiction can be found in Koffler.Digital, The Shanghai Literary Review, C Magazine, Canadian Art, and MICE Magazine.
WEBSITE: https://www.anniewong.co/
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