Ming Wong
Learn Swedish With Susan Wongtag / Lär dig svenska med Susan Wongtag, 2023
Single channel HD video, colour with stereo audio
4'50"
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
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During the artist's tenure as 'professor of fine art specialising in performance in the expanded field' at the Royal Art Institute, Ming Wong adopted a new persona inspired by Susan...
During the artist's tenure as "professor of fine art specialising in performance in the expanded
field" at the Royal Art Institute, Ming Wong adopted a new persona inspired by Susan Sontag, the
American writer, cultural theorist and filmmaker, who lived for a period in Stockholm in 1969 and
wrote a critique of Swedish society entitled "A Letter from Sweden". Originally commissioned as a
public art work in an underground station in Stockholm, the video features Susan Wongtag
repeating selected parts of the infamous letter, translated into Swedish.
field" at the Royal Art Institute, Ming Wong adopted a new persona inspired by Susan Sontag, the
American writer, cultural theorist and filmmaker, who lived for a period in Stockholm in 1969 and
wrote a critique of Swedish society entitled "A Letter from Sweden". Originally commissioned as a
public art work in an underground station in Stockholm, the video features Susan Wongtag
repeating selected parts of the infamous letter, translated into Swedish.
