Wong hoy cheong biography sample
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Wong Hoy Cheong was born in in Malaysia, and received an inter- national education: a BA in English Literature from Brandeis, an MA in.Wong Hoy Cheong by Hou Hanru
Hou Hanru: When did you start thinking about Re:Looking (2002-03)? Was it for the Venice Biennale? Or was it because you were in Austria at that time?
Wong Hoy Cheong: Because of Austria.
I was commissioned to do a project with Schauspielhaus, a theater company in Vienna. The project was broadly based on re-evaluating Marco Polo and his travels. I was wondering if, instead of him traveling from West to East, what if an explorer traveled from East to West instead, and if this person went to Austria, what would he have seen, what would he have felt?
And I extrapolated this idea further.
WONG Hoy Cheong.
What if he not only went there like an explorer, but instead, ended up colonizing the place. So that’s how this video, a sort of mock documentary, evolved.
HH: After I saw your video and invited you for the 50th Venice Biennale, we discussed the possibility of developing the idea beyond a video projection or a TV documentary.
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