Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Wong Kit Yi.

Wong Kit Yi works at the intersection of speculative imagination and research. Merging video with performance and the everyday, she crafts participatory experiences that engender questions of identity, the parameters of time and context. In her relational karaoke-lecture-performances, she moves fluidly between the voices of academia, memoir, philosophy and song, aggregating content from her research. A recent work commissioned for the FRONT Triennial 2022, Inner Voice Transplant (2022), takes as its starting point the history of a voice box transplant, first performed at the Cleveland Clinic in 1998, and from there explores a braided narrative of medicine, spirituality and consciousness. An upcoming project at The Kitchen in New York will present new work by the artist. 

Wong Kit Yi graduated from the department of fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University and has been teaching courses at State University of New York at Purchase and other universities on video art, performance, installation and sculpture. She has performed and shown work at M+, Hong Kong; Tate Modern, London; Queens Museum, New York; Para Site, Hong Kong; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; and the San Francisco Art Institute, California. She has participated in the Arctic Circle expeditionary residency (2015) and was a 2021-22 artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation, where she lived in a house full of infamously uncomfortable furniture designed by Donald Judd. Reviews of her work have appeared in such publications as ArtAsiaPacific, Art in America, ARTnews, Art Newspaper, ArtReview, Contemporary Art Daily, e-flux conversations and The New York Times. Her work has been collected by M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; and Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina; among others. 

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and critics presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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