Bookmark: Ming Wong
By The Contributing Artist
For Bookmark, ArtAsiaPacific invites an artist to spotlight some of their online sources of inspiration. This week we asked Ming Wong.
Ming Wong is a Singapore- and Berlin-based video artist, known for his campy reenactments of cinematic masterpieces and cult favorites. In 2009, Wong produced his series of films "Life of Imitation" (2009) for the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, in which he casted actors to play roles out of classic films obviously outside of their personal backgrounds. His recent film work Making Chinatown (2011), which is based on the 1974 film of the same name, parodies the stereotypes of Chinese-American communities made in Hollywood films. More information on the artist can be found at http://www.mingwong.org/
