Produced in Japan by Min Wong
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Assassa Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term
Business Overview
Contemporary artist Ming Wong (born 1971) from Singapore was invited to Tokyo to create and exhibit video works that are deeply related to Japanese popular culture and are set in Tokyo. In order to deal with Nikkatsu Roman-porno, which has played an important role in Japanese film history but has not been fully appreciated, from a modern gender perspective, the film focuses on modern video grammar developed on the social network service (SNS). Especially in China, men (cross-dressers) who disguise themselves as women, called "fake girls," have become popular in recent years, especially among teenagers, so the idea of production was born in which "fake girls" acting as Mr. Wong in Nikkatsu romantic porno. In the summer of 2019, we set up a simple shooting studio in our project space "Asaksa," and the artist and 3 staff members took pictures for 3 days using only one iPhone and sometimes making use of selfie sticks. In the exhibition, the venue was used as the room of a former pornographer, and at the opening, a performance event titled “Pillow Talk ” was held with the appearance of a“ fake girl ” portrayed by Wong.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Monday, July 1, 2019 - Tuesday, December 31
- Venues
- Asaksa and its suburbs (Taito Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
Min Wong
Born 1971 in Singapore. An artist based in Berlin. He is known for his multi-screen works in which he invades iconic world cinema masterpieces through the remaking method and adds new interpretations to the narration, script and production techniques. In these films, Wong appears in multiple translations of both male and female actors, highlighting differences from the original films and addressing issues such as racial and cultural identity, gender, language and nationalities. In 2009, he represented the Singapore Pavilion at the 53 th Venice Biennale and received the highest Special Jury Award for a Singaporean. The exhibition then toured around the world. Since then, Minh Wong's work has attracted international attention, participating in international exhibitions such as the Sydney Biennale (2010), Gwangju Biennale (2010), Singapore Biennale (2011), Liverpool Biennale (2012), Busan Biennale (2018), and Asian Art Biennale (2019), and gaining worldwide recognition. Ming Wong's solo exhibition "Life of Imitation" (2011) at the Hara Museum of Art (Shinagawa Ward), a reconstruction of his solo exhibition at the Singapore Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, and his solo exhibition "Me in Me" (2013) at the Shiseido Gallery, where he presented new works inspired by Japanese visual culture, including Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story" and the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion."