Wong Ping: Heart Digger

A urinal in a restroom or an unmade bed in a bedroom is just that, but put them in a gallery or museum at the right point in time while alerting sufficiently influential people to their presence and you can change the course of history. With regard to the animations of Wong Ping, which he originally...

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Published in:Art and AsiaPacific 2019-09 (115), p.139-139
Main Author: Miles, Ned Carter
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Art exhibits
Folklore
Internet
Sculpture
Video art
Visual artists
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Summary:A urinal in a restroom or an unmade bed in a bedroom is just that, but put them in a gallery or museum at the right point in time while alerting sufficiently influential people to their presence and you can change the course of history. With regard to the animations of Wong Ping, which he originally posted for consumption on the internet, the transposition from the online realm to the hallowed spaces of major arts institutions engenders no change in functional category, only in status. What, then, makes the pieces in "Heart Digger," Wong's solo exhibition at London's Camden Arts Centre-part of his reward for winning the Centre's 2018 Emerging Artist Prize-any different from videos on the internet?
ISSN:1039-3625