{"id":4827,"date":"2016-10-12T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compeung.org\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2017-10-05T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:41:05","slug":"artist-alex-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-alex-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wang"},"content":{"rendered":" &#8216;Google Crawfish&#8217;. 2014. Dead crawfish, Swarovski crystals, acrylic, redwood block. San Francisco\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I came to Chiang Mai in 2007 to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelandfoundation.org\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Land Foundation<\/a>\u2019s One Year Project II residency program. I left Chiang Mai in 2009 to pursue graduate school in San Francisco &#8211; an amazing place that has become increasingly expensive, White, segregated and conservative. This past year, my living situation has become particularly unstable as I\u2019m unable to secure affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Enter ComPeung &#8211; priced out of San Francisco for lack of economic clout only to return to Thailand via my economic clout. A 20 hour plane ride and the whole of my reality is suddenly reversed \u2013 I\u2019m another person here, someone with relative wealth, visibility, cultural significance. Escapism, rejuvenation, exploitation, enjoyment, fetishization, appreciation, ego, humility \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of motives behind why I might return.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to analyze and interrogate this other person, probe their motives, intentions, their sense of ethics and accountability. I\u2019d like to use this time and space for self reflection, to rejuvenate myself and my creative practice. \u00a0This will entail a fair amount of contemplation, research, conversation, meal making, bike riding, fishing and alcohol consumption. If there is a compelling synthesis of ideas and a form is developed, it&#8217;s possible that an artwork will emerge from it all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergingsf.org\/portfolio-item\/alex-wang\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emergingsf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/headshot1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Wang is a visual artist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco. Since 2010, he has been involved with <a href=\"http:\/\/i52611.wixsite.com\/kearnystreet\">Kearny Street Workshop<\/a>, the oldest Asian American multidisciplinary arts organization in the United States, and currently serves on the board of directors. Alex works at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ybca.org\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfartscommission.org\/\">San Francisco Arts Commission<\/a> as a preparator, teaches art for the Richmond Art Center and Mandarin Institute, and develops programming for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udel.edu\/udaily\/\">University of Delaware\u2019s Arts Bridging Culture<\/a> series. Alex holds an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I came to Chiang Mai in 2007 to take part in the Land Foundation\u2019s One Year Project II residency program. I left Chiang Mai in 2009 to pursue graduate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-alex-wang\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>explore this artist(s)<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alex Wang<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,67,72],"tags":[77,79],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism-intervention","category-cross-disciplinary","category-film-video","tag-taiwan","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/6260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}