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Little Big Horn (2010)

Custer's Last Stand. Sitting Bull Wins. Recorded in South Dakota. ...

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Ross, Kay, and Elsie (2010)

Friends and family members buried and cremated at Mountain View Cemetery. Ross Charles Haynes (1981-2000). Katherine Alma Erickson (1918-2003). Elsie Dunnet Sage (1915-2008). ...

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Downtown Eastside (2010)

The artist records everyday activities in the streets and alleys around the Main and Hasting Street intersection. On the right, the view is from a fixed camera positioned on top of a dashboard in a moving car. On the left, he walks with a handheld camera w ...

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Dovetale (2010)

Mixing together of Pantages' Implosion of a longtime down town east side landmark: the Woodwards building, with Wong's Downtown Eastside alleys. ...

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Scorched (2010)

In picture-in-picture style Wong has structured four recordings made in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of Southern California. Recorded in the blistering heat of July he positions the natural and man's failed attempts to exist in this unrelenting climate. ...

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Mahjong (2010)

"Paul Wong's Mahjong is rooted in the visual and oral sensuality of the game–the saturated colours of green in the game pieces and table top, the characters and names, floral patterns and coloured numbers on the dice and game pieces. It is this rich icon ...

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Last Year (2010)

Approx. 6000 images, 1000 still photographs a minute flash on and off the screen. A year of pictures mash into an intense viewing experience. Using the iphoto software, Last Year is the result of compiling all 2009 photographs from several different comput ...

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Enter the Dragon 1973-2008 (2010)

Two seminal moments of recent media history are presented side by side. The closing scene from the film Enter The Dragon* starring Bruce Lee are juxtaposed with the first segment from the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. ...

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Save the Queen (2010)

Installation featuring flowing, erupting, bubbling lava projected on water, rocks and Koi fish. ...

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Strangler Tree (2010)

Inspired by the Australian Banyan tree commonly known as the Strangler Fig, the site-specific mash-up used appropriated material from popular culture related to strangulation, suffocation, hanging and auto-erotic asphyxiation. ...

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The Fallen (2010)

Dedicated to all who have risked climbing, and to those who have fallen by choice, circumstance or by accident. Mixing of original, found, and appropriated footage. ...

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Well Done (2010)

A foreign landowner negotiates with the locals and oversees digging of a well on his property. ...

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Joshua Tree (2010)

Projected onto 8' weather balloon. Recorded at Joshua Tree National Park. Part of the Scorched series. ...

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Pool (2010)

Abandoned pool used by skateboarders. Remnants of former yacht club on the Salton Sea, Mojave Desert. ...

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Easter Parade (2010)

Icon of Jesus is marched through town in the days leading up to Easter. ...

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Vigil 5.4 (2010)

At the 2002 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver Paul Wong recorded Rebecca Belmore's performance VIGIL. The unedited document and excerpts have been used by Belmore in various ways. 8 years later Wong edits his short version of this seminal performance and ...

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Exit Upon Arrival (2010)

In vertical split screen we see and hear two shifting views of the artist entering and exiting via a set of swinging doors. Going in and out of the light the top frame sees the performer in a wide shot, the bottom frame in medium range. ...

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Ooooo Canada (2010)

Ooooo Canada is a 30-minute edited version presenting highlights from the five-hour live webcast on February 13,2010. Ooooo Canada was the first in a series of five site-specific projects presented during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter games in Va ...

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Round Trip (2010)

Recorded in Vancouver, Round Trip takes you on a car ride that starts on Main Street, goes through downtown, the west end, Stanley Park, and then retraces its route back to Main Street. Composed as a visual journey, Round Trip makes use of video mixing mi ...

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2 Hot 2 Handle (2009)

On the right stills and video of the 2009 Canadian Rockies International Rodeo in Strathmore, Alberta. On the left stills and titles/text of rodeo bronzes from the Glenbow's collection. Wong's work is an impressionistic portrait, which explores this alter ...

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EastVan 'John' (2008)

Dennis and Barb McDonald are empty nesters from the suburbs. On this day they get legal possession of their new house. They have privately purchased the burned out house directly from its owner. John Jeffery grew up in this house. He has been living on th ...

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Dog Eat Dog (2008)

The muse performs Dog Eat Dog. In altered and real-time he presents a dark and light side of innocence. ...

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Chelsea Hotel Room 207 (2008)

Crack induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involved in the activities of two men in tightie-whities (one black/one white). Described by viewers as both horrific and so full of humanity. This work is not wha ...

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Diamondback (2008)

A couple of bumbling guys on a dark road in Nicaragua spot a snake. They bound after the serpent that has slitered into the tall grass. Using bare hands they seize the Diamondback Rattler. ...

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Sally (2008)

Sally is a portrait, a love ballad. The artist gazes at beautiful Sally as she relaxes in her bathrobe in the sumptuous suite of the China Club in Beijing. Always behind the camera, Wong is uninhibited as ever as he crafts an intimate portrait. Recorded in ...

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Running In a Maze (2008)

Running In A Maze features an abstracted video of young women and men playfully chasing one another in a maze created by artist Charles Rea. The layering of architectural forms and spaces in conjunction with abstracted text creates a visual labyrinth in wh ...

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Perfect Day (2007)

The artist records himself at home proudly indulging in the happiness of a drug (heroin and cocaine) inspired perfect day. The music of Lou Reed: Heroin and Perfect Day. Recorded on Sunday – edited on Monday. Be Happy. ...

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Spring (2006)

The scattering of Steve Lacy's ashes at Long Island, NY on March 21, 2006. ...

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Venenzia (2006)

With real and constructed reflected views we glide down the Grand Canal in silence. We enter a tighter waterway slipping past buildings on each side and go under foot bridges. The single view splits into multiple views, as we reach open water it returns to ...

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Smash: Reflecting Sex (2002)

"In 2002, I was invited to curate two video programs of Canadian works for EuroPride in Koln, Germany. Feeling disillusioned by the mainstreaming or "gay-streaming" of queer culture, I slammed together a collection of shorts critiquing our queer culture â ...

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Trieste (2002)

Based on slides shot in 1978 of the Austrian aktion artist Hermann Nitsch. Put away for 24 years, the color transparencies are spread out on a light table. The images are examined with a macro lens and captured with digital video. Not so much a reconstruct ...

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EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless (2002)

EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless is a roving view of the homeless occupying the public sidewalks surrounding the vacant Woodward's Building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The tent city becomes both an eyesore and rallying point for the plight of ...

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Refugee Class of 2000 (2000)

Refugee Class of 2000 is a series of three TV ads produced as part of the Unite Against Racism campaign mounted by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. These ads started airing nationally on Jan. 15, 2000. The central subjects are thirty four Grade 12 s ...

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Jazz Slave Ships (1998)

Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar. It took place in two U.K. ports in October 1996: on the West Coas ...

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Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World (1996)

Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, healthworkers, educators, artists ...

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So Are You (1995)

So Are You is a 25 minute videotape about the difficulties of assuming ones self-identity. Identity is shaped and informed by the dominant culture, often producing stereotypes that are reinforced by the media. Through such structures racist behaviour is le ...

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Miss Chinatown (1995)

Miss Chinatown juxtaposes the views of eight subjects against the background image of a beauty pageant: the Miss Chinese-Vancouver 1996. The subjects are all full or part ethnic Chinese, together they represent a diverse face of the Chinese-Canadian commu ...

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Temple of My Familiar (1995)

Temple of My Familiar is the name of a mural painted in Belfast by Canadian artist Nhan Duc Nguyen. This documentary situates Nguyen's art within the political context of war-torn Northern Ireland, and explores the artist's own cross-cultural search for an ...

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Mixed Messages (1995)

Mixed Messages is a work that addresses the issues of race and sexuality. This mixed media installation consists of three life size photographs of Gina Gonzalez, who is subject of two 20 minute videotapes. Gina is a transsexual claiming to have undergone a ...

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Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain (1992)

The images seem to suggest a traditional Chinese funeral ceremony associated with ancestor worship, though Wong has remarked they do not represent any particular ritual. The work deals with death, remembrance, and history, and was conceived as a memorial t ...

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Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade (1988)

Wong uses his second generation Chinese-Canadian perspective to frame the Chinese here in the new world, Canada, and in the motherland, China. This is an intimate, personal view. Through his own "family network" and several trips to the People's Republic o ...

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Body Fluid (1987)

A skillful, sensual rendering of an intriguing performance orchestrated by the artist. Through a fog-laden atmosphere, iconic figures emerge to perform on a huge turntable. Our look at this garishly lit spectacle is mediated by the gaze of a female Red Gua ...

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Confused: Sexual Views (1984)

The installation Confused: Sexual Views was part of a three-phase project that also included Confused [the videotape] and Confused [the performance]. It was produced just before AIDS had reached epidemic proportions. Twenty-seven individuals face the camer ...

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Confused [The Videotape] (1984)

A visual/aural non-linear narrative. A layering of ideas, facts, opinions, prejudices, fears, and styles. The story is based upon the innuendoes and interrelationships of four main characters – Gary, Gina, Jeanette and Paul. Distinct video forms are used ...

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'4' (1981)

'4′ originated as a collaborative performance by Deborah Fong, Carol Hackett, Annastacia McDonald and Jeanette Reinhardt as the S.S. Girls, following events and activities of the women's daily lives on Main Street. The performance was produced by Paul Wo ...

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Prime Cuts (1981)

"For those who came of age in the 1960s and 70s, glamour received its highest expression in fashion magazines like Vogue, where the representation of lives and those who lived them achieved perfection on every page. Prime Cuts is a work premised on the not ...

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Asteroid (1978)

A made for the camera video collaboration with Steve Paxton, a unique pas de deux between videographer and dancer. ...

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Hands Across the Border (1978)

Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Mu ...

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in ten sity (1978)

"The VAG exhibition space was staged with a four walled cube, 8'X 8' which was padded internally. The four walls and the open ceiling were monitored by video cameras. Wong entered the gallery, climbed a ladder and disappeared into the blue cube. Personally ...

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Support Modelling (1977)

The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and punk rock scene. To promote the project, Paul Wong made a three-channel video (later adapted to single channe ...

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7 Day Activity (1977)

Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends "youth & angst". 7 day Activity – 7 days of facial treatments for acne. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the vain ...

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Murder Research (1977)

"Early in the morning on Thursday Feb 26, 1976, a young First Nations man named Eugene Lloyd Pelly was fatally stabbed in an apartment at 4272 Watson Street, east of Main near 28th. After escaping out a window Pelly collapsed in the middle of the road and, ...

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60 Unit; Bruise (1976)

Wong's first colour videotape bears the influence of several artistic genres popular in the 1970s, including performance and body art. We see Kenneth Fletcher draw several millilitres of blood from his arm and inject the contents of the syringe into Paul W ...

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Amass (1976)

A 4 channel video installation (Hill, Wall, Cliff, Roof). A video dance work based on the accumulation 24 movements. The multi-layered effect is structuralist and sculptural, exploring the elements of real, delayed, edited and inherent video time. ...

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Rock Garden (1976)

A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous shots of stone piles. On one monitor we see a close-up of hands grasping stones off the pile and tossing them off until the pile dwindles. The second monito ...

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Subway Loop (1975)

This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. "Three views of Toronto's underground action; trains pull in, pause, doors open, crowds exchange places, whirl off into oblivion. It is ...

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On Becoming a Man (1975)

On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother's house at St. Catherines St. to the Quebec St. home of Kenneth Fletcher. Most remarkable about this video is not its careful camera work (shot entirely from a moving vehicle), ...

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Earthworks In Harmony (1974)

Based on four ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, this four-tape, multi-monitor piece was presented on sixteen monitors at the Burnaby Art Gallery's Video Bag show and was the main installation. ...

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Movies Starring Paul Wong (13)

Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982 (2015)

MAINSTREETERS: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 surveys the history of a gang of Vancouver artists who lived and worked together in drama, excess, friendship and grief. From 1972 until roughly 1982, they lived along Main Street, the traditional dividing line be ...

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Ooooo Canada (2010)

Ooooo Canada is a 30-minute edited version presenting highlights from the five-hour live webcast on February 13,2010. Ooooo Canada was the first in a series of five site-specific projects presented during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter games in Va ...

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Chelsea Hotel Room 207 (2008)

Crack induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involved in the activities of two men in tightie-whities (one black/one white). Described by viewers as both horrific and so full of humanity. This work is not wha ...

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Diamondback (2008)

A couple of bumbling guys on a dark road in Nicaragua spot a snake. They bound after the serpent that has slitered into the tall grass. Using bare hands they seize the Diamondback Rattler. ...

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Sally (2008)

Sally is a portrait, a love ballad. The artist gazes at beautiful Sally as she relaxes in her bathrobe in the sumptuous suite of the China Club in Beijing. Always behind the camera, Wong is uninhibited as ever as he crafts an intimate portrait. Recorded in ...

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Perfect Day (2007)

The artist records himself at home proudly indulging in the happiness of a drug (heroin and cocaine) inspired perfect day. The music of Lou Reed: Heroin and Perfect Day. Recorded on Sunday – edited on Monday. Be Happy. ...

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Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look (1985)

Luc Bourdon, Marc Paradis and Simon B. Robert are curators for a selection of Canadian video to be presented within the context of the 13th Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and Video. This tape relates their experiences and research which occ ...

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Confused [The Videotape] (1984)

A visual/aural non-linear narrative. A layering of ideas, facts, opinions, prejudices, fears, and styles. The story is based upon the innuendoes and interrelationships of four main characters – Gary, Gina, Jeanette and Paul. Distinct video forms are used ...

Watch Now

in ten sity (1978)

"The VAG exhibition space was staged with a four walled cube, 8'X 8' which was padded internally. The four walls and the open ceiling were monitored by video cameras. Wong entered the gallery, climbed a ladder and disappeared into the blue cube. Personally ...

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7 Day Activity (1977)

Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends "youth & angst". 7 day Activity – 7 days of facial treatments for acne. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the vain ...

Watch Now

60 Unit; Bruise (1976)

Wong's first colour videotape bears the influence of several artistic genres popular in the 1970s, including performance and body art. We see Kenneth Fletcher draw several millilitres of blood from his arm and inject the contents of the syringe into Paul W ...

Watch Now

Rock Garden (1976)

A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous shots of stone piles. On one monitor we see a close-up of hands grasping stones off the pile and tossing them off until the pile dwindles. The second monito ...

Watch Now

On Becoming a Man (1975)

On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother's house at St. Catherines St. to the Quebec St. home of Kenneth Fletcher. Most remarkable about this video is not its careful camera work (shot entirely from a moving vehicle), ...

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