Created by KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG www.TinKin.com This installation consists of a 5 minutes long 4K video and a Vaporwave inspired Karaoke lounge. The installation first debuted at Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas. Artist Statement: “Careless Twitter by POTUS” is a derivative karaoke music video that aims to address the polarized political landscape…
ARTIST STATEMENT: In response to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE addresses the systemic racism in the United States criminal justice system. Named after a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the project aims to criticize issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality towards African-Americans in modern day America. INJUSTICE ANYWHERE…
Installation View at Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, 2015 The exchange rate is calculated with the following equation: TOTAL MIR ÷ MIR AVAILABLE = EXCHANGE RATE ARTIST STATEMENT #MakeItRainCurrency Make It Rain (∄MIR) is a social practice art project that aims to ask questions about our monetary system while alleviating poverty through microcredit lending. 50% of each ∄MIR sold…
VIEW FULL PROJECT AT www.EXCITOEXCITO.com Artist Statement Ex-ci’-to-tox-in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. “Excito Excito”: A Veritable Feast is a collaborative artwork that creates,…
VIEW FULL PROJECT AT www.GlobalElection.org ARTIST STATEMENT: Global Presidential Election enables you to vote for a global leader from a pool of fourteen dictators using a voting system based upon the model of American democracy. The goal of this project is to examine the rhetoric surrounding America’s favorite buzzword, Democracy. With the current state of international relationships…
Created and Directed by KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG Narration Written and Performed by TIM BLUE Music by JOHN BLUE Artist Statement: Residential Erection is devoted to the 2008 US Presidential Election and its unprecedented place at the intersection of politics, popular culture and media manipulation of the political process. Today’s headlines are tomorrow’s history, the action-packed…
Installation view at Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2011 ARTIST STATEMENTS: In response to increasingly pervasive and draconian online censorship in China, “The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages” examines the role of Kuso culture (惡搞文化/ détournement) and its impact on Chinese internet. The Chinese title 腦殘遊記 is a homophonic wordplay to 老殘遊記 (The Travels of Lao…
ABOUT: “Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People” is a mixed media installation consists of two parts- a High Definition video and a papier mache structure with inkjet prints. VIDEO: “Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People” is a video/ animation that employs images from popular culture, political figures and imagery found in the internet.…
ARTIST STATEMENT: Dr. Optimator’s 60X1.CAM (UIWSSHS) is an interactive installation that utilizes web technology to examine the voyeuristic nature of internet surfing as well as the conflicting relationship of virtual and given reality. In the installation, the gallery itself is monitored by three separate web cams and streamed online at http://www.60CAM.com/ (now obsolete). The devises in…
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