Patty Chang is associated with: Spiritual Myopia
Spiritual Myopia is a sculptural video work dealing with the invisible labor and desire of residents of the oil-industry boom towns of Fort McMurray in the Canadian Tar Sands, and Port Arthur, Texas. The two towns are terminal nodes of the proposed Keyston ...
Watch NowChinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants. ...
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The film follows the fabrication and journey of a wooden submarine to the Three Gorges site on the Yangtze river—once a landscape most often depicted in traditional Chinese painting, now submerged to accommodate a hydroelectric dam. Wavering between docu ...
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Patty Chang examines the idea of Shangri-La, the mythical hamlet of James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, which has come to represent a romanticized, exotic paradise in the English-speaking world. Chang's video installation documents and explores her jou ...
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In this dual-channel video, two separate scenes of the artist with a parent are juxtaposed. Chang faces her mother and, in the adjacent frame, appears face–to–face with her father. Simultaneously both images show the artist's and respective parent's fa ...
Watch NowDeath of Game is the remake of a scene from Bruce Lee's film, Game of Death. The mid seventies was a period of growing visibility of actors of color in Blaxploitation and Asian action films. These genres both gave mainstream exposure to but also paradoxica ...
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A video work that visually alludes to Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World" (1948) and depicts Chang on a suburban lawn that is curiously destabilizing. ...
Watch NowMade on the 89th floor of the World trade center during a residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. ...
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Inspired in part by a performance by Marina Abramovic and Jean Cocteau's Orpheus. I eat an onion with a woman, then we kiss. The footage is played backwards and starts with kissing and crying before the onion emerges. ...
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I had this calendar from Fredricks of Hollywood on my wall and there was an air purifier that I used to prop the door open. I would hear rhythmic fluttering of paper and the calendar was moving between images in a sort of dance. ...
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Fountain is a video that originated from a live performance of drinking water from a mirror. The image of confronting one's own image recalls Narcissus, the Greek god that fell in love with his own image without recognizing it as his own, in some way being ...
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Chang shaved her pubic hair with Perrier while blindfolded using touch to guide action. ...
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A performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head. Melons is a video based on images and script about my aunt's death ...
Watch NowAn intense blending of horror genre, date movies, and dark themes of voyeurism, fantasy, brutality and hard core porn. ...
Watch NowIn this dual-channel video, two separate scenes of the artist with a parent are juxtaposed. Chang faces her mother and, in the adjacent frame, appears face–to–face with her father. Simultaneously both images show the artist's and respective parent's fa ...
Watch NowA video work that visually alludes to Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World" (1948) and depicts Chang on a suburban lawn that is curiously destabilizing. ...
Watch NowChang shaved her pubic hair with Perrier while blindfolded using touch to guide action. ...
Watch NowA performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head. Melons is a video based on images and script about my aunt's death ...
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