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SUMMARY:Hong Hong: The Past Does Not Need You\, But It Borrows Your Mouth
DESCRIPTION:Performances: March 17-18\, 20267:30 PM\, doors 6:30 PM | Reserve Tickets\nDiverseWorks presents The Past Does Not Need You\, But It Borrows Your Mouth\, an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Hong Hong. This multidisciplinary presentation weaves together a four-channel video installation\, sculpture\, and live performance. Together\, these works consider geography as a poetic structure\, time as acquisition\, history as erosion\, and language as something transmitted through nonlinear experience. \nThe exhibition unfolds as two coexisting experiences. On March 17 and 18\, the gallery will be open from 12–5 PM for visitors to experience the video installation and sculpture. Evening live performances at 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM) will activate the space\, bringing all components of the work together in a unified\, time-based presentation. \nThe presented works extend from a series of durational performances on Angel Island and the Marin Headlands between 2025 and 2026. In each performance\, Hong Hong continuously walked the island’s perimeter and along the California coast. This repetitive circumambulation marked the island and shoreline’s spiritual resonance\, notating them as sites where miracles occurred. \nThe Past Does Not Need You\, But It Borrows Your Mouth continues ongoing research from Hong Hong’s residency with DiverseWorks in Fall 2025. \nDATES & TIMES:\nOPEN INSTALLATIONFour-channel video installation and sculptureTuesday\, March 17 & Wednesday\, March 18\, 12 PM – 5 PMFree admission. No tickets required. \nLIVE PERFORMANCES*Tuesday\, March 17\, 7:30 PM\, doors open 6:30 PMRESERVE TICKETS HEREWednesday\, March 18\, 7:30 PM\, doors open 6:30 PMRESERVE TICKETS HEREPay-what-you-wish\, $25 suggested. All are welcome. Tickets required. \n*Ticket holders are encouraged to arrive at 6:30 PM to experience the video installation before the start of the performance. \nARTIST BIO:\nBorn in Hefei\, Anhui\, China\, Hong Hong works with image-making and language through repetition\, disruption\, movement\, accumulation\, limitation\, translation\, evaporation\, and dispersion. She considers the materiality of the body\, the histories of craft\, the semiotics of poetry as well as the field of painting in relation to identity\, memory\, nations\, and land. Hong’s practice centers the creation and preservation of a Chinese-American subjectivity rooted in largeness\, multiplicity\, opacity\, self-definition\, and self-determination. \nHong Hong is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2025)\, Chiaro Award in Painting at Headlands Center for the Arts (2025)\, Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024 – 2026)\, United States Artists Fellowship in Craft (2023)\, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting (2023)\, Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell (2020)\, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (2019)\, and Artistic Excellence Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of Arts (2019). She has participated in residencies at McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2022)\, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2020 – 2021)\, Yaddo (2019)\, and I-Park (2018). \nHer work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Real Art Ways (Hartford\, CT)\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville\, AR)\, Oklahoma Contemporary (Oklahoma City\, OK)\, Georgia Museum of Art (Athens\, GA)\, Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York\, NY)\, Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland\, ME)\, NXTHVN (New Haven\, CT)\, Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg\, MA)\, Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art (Reston\, VA)\, San Francisco Center for Book Arts (San Francisco\, CA)\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Akron Art Museum (Akron\, OH)\, Asia Society Texas Center (Houston\, TX)\, and University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas\, TX)\, among others.
URL:https://diverseworks.org/event/hong-hong-the-past-does-not-need-you-but-it-borrows-your-mouth/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks – MATCHBOX 1\, 3400 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
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