Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere

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…

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Make It Rain (∄MIR)

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…

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ARTivist POPaganda

POLITICAL AND PROTEST ARTS Below is a collection of political and protest related graphics I created throughout the years. Viewers were encouraged to download, alter and freely distribute the images. Some of the images were very popular in various protests against the Iraq War in San Francisco which I was arrested for civil disobedience. Most of the…

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“Excito Excito”: A Veritable Feast

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,…

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Global Presidential Election

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…

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In G.O.D. We Trust

Dedicated to MY GRANDMA SZE MUI LEE Created by KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG www.TinKin.com Audio by MR CLOAK AND DAGGER www.myspace.com/suckafizznit suckafish.beats@gmail.com forcefedfistfuls.podomatic.com The exhibition consists of a 5 mins HD 1080p30 video and seven 40X72 inches digital prints on canvas. Artist Statement: “In G.O.D. We Trust” remixes the political and economical hardships Barrack Obama has…

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Occupy Wall Street

Artist Statement: In September 2011, a protest movement called Occupy Wall Street took place in Zuccotti Park in New York City. The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. Below is a series of posters I created for…

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Residential Erection

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…

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腦殘遊記 The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages

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…

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