TSANG Kin-Wah's year-long solo exhibition "T SANG K IN-W AH : ALONGSEN TEN CE" is presented at the Yalu River Art Museum, Dandong.
Dates: 28 June 2025 - 10 June 2026
Location: Yalu River Art Museum, Dandong, China
“ALONGSEN T EN C E” is a work and exhibition in which the artist collages diverse texts from history, religion, politics, society, literature, and song lyrics, enabling the multiple voices within these texts to co-create a form of writing that decentralises the author. By removing strokes from characters and fragmenting sentences, the artist deconstructs previously closed and singular meanings, expanding the text’s significance and generating multiple possibilities. This process, akin to a game, grants the audience space for autonomous association, creation, and recombination, transforming the text from a stable, closed entity into a continuously flowing, open, and polysemous dynamic statle. A key element of the work is the performance within the exhibition space, where security personnel and audience members use megaphones to vocally project the text. The presence of security staff imbues the utterances with connotations of authority, order, and command, creating a striking contrast with the freely recited phrases of the audience. Simultaneously, computer-generated bilingual (Chinese and English) readings are broadcast through handheld megaphones and interwoven with video replays of previous audience performances on monitor. The entire space resembles a stage or laboratory, allowing different subjects and performers to collaboratively play with, explore, and express the diverse possibilities of language and meaning through visual and auditory forms.
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