Paul Wong

Paul Wong

Birthday: 1954-11-20

Place of Birth: Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

Biography: Paul Wong is a media-maestro making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award winning artist and curator who is known for pioneering early visual and media art in Canada, founding several artist-run groups, leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Writing, publishing and teaching have been an important part of his praxis. With a career spanning four decades he has been instrumental proponent to contemporary art.

Movies

Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

Luc Bourdon, Marc Paradis and Simon B. Robert are curators for a selection of Canadian video to be p...

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Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982
Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982

MAINSTREETERS: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 surveys the history of a gang of Vancouver artists who li...

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60 Unit; Bruise
60 Unit; Bruise

Wong's first colour videotape bears the influence of several artistic genres popular in the 1970s, i...

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Confused [The Videotape]
Confused [The Videotape]

A visual/aural non-linear narrative. A layering of ideas, facts, opinions, prejudices, fears, and st...

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On Becoming a Man
On Becoming a Man

On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother’s house at St. Cathe...

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Rock Garden
Rock Garden

A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous ...

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7 Day Activity
7 Day Activity

Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiogra...

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in ten sity
in ten sity

"The VAG exhibition space was staged with a four walled cube, 8’X 8’ which was padded internally. Th...

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Perfect Day
Perfect Day

The artist records himself at home proudly indulging in the happiness of a drug (heroin and cocaine)...

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Chelsea Hotel Room 207
Chelsea Hotel Room 207

Crack induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involve...

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Diamondback
Diamondback

A couple of bumbling guys on a dark road in Nicaragua spot a snake. They bound after the serpent tha...

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Sally
Sally

Sally is a portrait, a love ballad. The artist gazes at beautiful Sally as she relaxes in her bathro...

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The Hotel
The Hotel

The Hotel featured 12 site-specific performances and art installations created by Wong, which wowed ...

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Hell Money
Hell Money

Excerpts featuring Paul Wong as the Wiry Man in Season 3, Episode 19 of the X-Files (1996). Part of ...

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Ooooo Canada
Ooooo Canada

Ooooo Canada is a 30-minute edited version presenting highlights from the five-hour live webcast on ...

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Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama tells the epic journey of the late Japanese Canadian ph...

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