Artist Dr Sonia Wong on diglossic poetry, letters of universal emotions, and on sharing a bed with strangers.
Interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher Dr Sonia Wong
Ep.77 | Dr Sonia Wong is a Hong Kong-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher. We began our conversation about her role at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, how her diglossic poetry and writing has informed her body of work, we talked about embodied experiences, and lastly we discussed her latest 3-day performance One Sheet of Warm Coexistence in which she invited people to share her bed with her.
Sonia Wong is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher based in Hong Kong. Her work explores sexuality, identity, intimacy, and violence, within the context of Asian histories and colonial legacies. Her recent projects focus on exploring femininity, relationship, connection, desire, vulnerability, intimacy, and trauma, through a combination of performed text, installation, and immersive visuals and ambient soundscapes. She debuted at Tai Kwun with Becoming The Wild Thing (2022) at the opening of Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III Exhibition (2022) with collaborator Zoë Marden, with two reruns of the performance in March and April 2023, and a solo performance Delivered Not Read presented by Eaton HK in February 2023.
Becoming The Wild Thing (2022) at the opening of Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III Exhibition (2022) with collaborator Zoë Marden.
Delivered Not Read presented by Eaton HK, Solo performance by Sonia Wong, 2023
One Sheet of Warm Coexistence, performance at iisuArt followed by exhibition at Eaton HK, Sonia Wong, 2023
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