Wu Tsang
Profile
Wu Tsang (1982, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an award-winning filmmaker and performance artist. Her works explore hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. Her documentary approach combines different types of storytelling with fantastical excursions into imaginary realms. Tsang’s first feature film Wildness (2012) documents an immigrant gay bar in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where she coorganized a weekly club for the bar’s longtime patrons and young queer artists of colour. The bar itself plays a leading role in the film, serving as an omniscient narrator and embodying the real and fantastical acts through which cultural fictions are formed and expressed. Her practice is deeply collaborative, most frequently associated with the performance group she co-founded in 2016 with artist Tosh Basco, known as Moved by the Motion. Moved by the Motion is a ‘roving band’ of interdisciplinary artists, including experimental cellist Patrick Belaga, dancer Josh Johnson, electronic musician Asma Maroof, and poet Fred Moten. Some of her longterm collaborators moved to Zurich with Tsang joining the Schauspielhaus ensemble and share her time in residence here: Tosh Basco (fka boychild), Asma Maroof and Josh Johnson.
Recent works
2012 Wildness
2014 A day in the life of Bliss
2016 Duilian.
2016 Gravitational Feel
2019 Sudden Rise
Important invitations
La Biennale de Venezia, MoMa New York, Whitney Biennial, New Museum Triennial, Hammer Museum, Performa 11 New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, Tate Modern London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Berlin Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Antenna Space Shanghai, M+ Museum Hong Kong, Hiroshima MOCA, Berlinale Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival, Gropius Bau Berlin, Lafayette Anticipation Paris
Awards
2016 Guggenheim Fellow
2018 MacArthur Genius Grant, lifetime achievement
2018 Hugo Boss Prize Nominee
Stipendium
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Stipendium Rockefeller Foundation
Past events
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music theatre |Koninklijk Theater Carré
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2022
multidisciplinary |Muziekgebouw - Grote zaal