Conditions and Predicaments of Time: Interview with Morgan Wong
By Merve Ünsal
Portrait of MORGAN WONG. Courtesy the artist.
Hong Kong-based Morgan Wong’s practice integrates objects, performance, and images to push boundaries of time, both in relation to his own body and to make visible its construct(s). Wong performed at the artist-run space 5533 in Istanbul on October 20, 2018 as part of his two-week research trip to the city through a grant provided by m-est.org, a publication initiative of which I’m co-editor. The method with which Wong deals with notions of time is specific and ambiguous, poetic and empirical, probing and removed. As time appears to flow in different speeds across histories and geographies, I extended the below questions to Morgan after he left Istanbul, asking him to contemplate what it means to repeat the same(ish) performance twice over the course of one week in two very different setups, as well as larger questions of temporality, futility and reproducibility.
