ISAAC CHONG WAI
Artist

Rehearsal of the Futures: Is the World Your Friend? 2018

Rehearsal of the Futures: Is the World Your Friend? 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Performance, Set of 13 Drawing (30x40 each with frame), Painting 160 x 120cm
Exhibited at ACUD Galerie curated by Pauline Doutreluingne and Petra Suzie Poelzl
Dancers: Katherine Leung, Manuel Lindner, Imola Nagy, Nobutaka Shomura. 
Photo: Alice Yu and Tobias Koenig

Rehearsal of the Futures: Is the World Your Friend? 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Performance, Set of 13 Drawing (30x40 each with frame), Painting 160 x 120cm
Exhibited at ACUD Galerie curated by Pauline Doutreluingne and Petra Suzie Poelzl
Performers: Katherine Leung, Manuel Lindner, Imola Nagy, Nobutaka Shomura. 
Photo: Alice Yu and Tobias Koenig

By looking at large-scale gatherings, such as demonstrations Isaac Chong Wai investigates the role of the individual within those assemblages. The performance transforms the politically charged images with slowness and stillness through the possible futures that Chong imagines. By researching the repetitive body postures, gestures and movements of protestors in the history of protests, the performance rehearses and edits how we normally perceive the body in an attempt to reconcile with the suppressed individuals who suffered from state violence. Carrying each other in turn until the holder is shaking and exhausted; transforming a fight in slow motion, the subtle movements force us to read closely the vocabulary of protests.