{"id":2459,"name":"WU TSANG","email":"evi.bert@muhka.be","language_id":1,"permalink":"wu-tsang--2","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://wutsang.com","twitter":null,"category_id":28,"date_of_birth":"1981-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"","lastname":"","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"WU TSANG","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"WU TSANG","stream_count_app":17,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/024/004/large/03_Artist_WU_TSANG_in_his_hotel_room_before_the_2012_Whitney_Biennial_opening..jpg?1402574439","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":1,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWu Tsang is a distinctive and versatile performer and film-maker who works with the relationship between voice, character and subjectivity. He has a developed a technique he calls \u0026lsquo;full body quotation\u0026rsquo;, which evolved from his training in bel canto opera. It allows him to re-constitute and re-embody a text in real time, as he receives it through an invisible earpiece, but with a voice and movements that take mimicry as far as possible to defy any notion of authenticity or authorship. Wu Tsang\u0026rsquo;s work consists of many such acts that may be linguistically defined with the help of the prefix trans- (\u0026lsquo;across\u0026rsquo;), such as transposition, translation or transgression. His own experience of being transgender underline this \u0026lsquo;acrossness\u0026rsquo;, but at the same time it demonstrates something else: the need to challenge the roles that language and legibility play for who is recognised as human. Wu Tsang\u0026rsquo;s art \u0026ndash; not least the well-known feature-length film WILDNESS (2012) set in Silver Platter, a bar frequented by the Latin LGBTQ community in Los Angeles \u0026ndash; might be seen as a re-tooling of identity politics for our times, as something we shouldn\u0026rsquo;t discard until it is safe to do so.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://wutsang.com\"\u003eMore\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWu Tsang is een opmerkelijke maar veelzijdige performancekunstenaar en filmmaker die werkt met de relatie tussen stem, karakter en subjectiviteit. Hij heeft een bijzondere techniek ontwikkeld die hij full body quotation heet, en die evolueerde vanuit zijn opleiding in belcanto opera. Het stelt hem in staat een tekst, terwijl hij hem ontvangt door een onzichtbaar oortje, in real-time te hercre\u0026euml;ren en opnieuw te belichamen, maar met een stem en bewegingen die de nabootsing zo ver mogelijk drijven om elke notie van authenticiteit of auteurschap weg te nemen. Het werk van Wu Tsang omvat veel van dergelijke handelingen die taalkundig kunnen worden gedefinieerd met behulp van het voorvoegsel trans- (\u0026lsquo;overheen\u0026rsquo;): transpositie, vertaling (translation) en transgressie. Zijn eigen ervaring als transgender onderstreept deze \u0026lsquo;overheen-heid\u0026rsquo;, maar tegelijkertijd toont het ook iets anders: de noodzaak om de rollen die taal en leesbaarheid spelen voor wie erkend is als mens uit te dagen. Wu Tsang\u0026rsquo;s kunst \u0026ndash; niet in het minst zijn welbekende langspeelfilm WILDNESS (2012), die zich afspeelt in Silver Platter, een bar bezocht door de Latijnse LGBTQ (Lesbisch, Homosexueel, Bisexueel, Transgender, Queer) gemeenschap in Los Angeles \u0026ndash; kan gezien worden als een re-tooling van identiteitspolitiek voor deze tijd, als iets dat we niet mogen negeren totdat het veilig is om dat te doen.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://wutsang.com\"\u003eMeer\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWu Tsang est un performeur hors du commun, aux talents vari\u0026eacute;s, et un cin\u0026eacute;aste qui travaille sur la relation entre la voix, le personnage et la subjectivit\u0026eacute;. Il a d\u0026eacute;velopp\u0026eacute; une technique qu\u0026rsquo;il nomme full body quotation (citation du corps entier) \u0026agrave; partir de sa formation au bel canto. Elle lui permet de reconstituer et reformuler en temps r\u0026eacute;el un texte qui lui est souffl\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; travers une oreillette invisible, avec une voix et des mouvements qui poussent l\u0026rsquo;imitation aussi loin que possible, d\u0026eacute;fiant ainsi toute notion d\u0026rsquo;authenticit\u0026eacute; ou de paternit\u0026eacute; de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;uvre. L\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;uvre de Wu Tsang consiste en un grand nombre de tels actes, qu\u0026rsquo;on pourrait d\u0026eacute;finir du point de vue linguistique par le pr\u0026eacute;fixe trans- (par-del\u0026agrave;), comme transposition, traduction ou transgression. Sa propre exp\u0026eacute;rience de personne transgenre souligne cette \u0026laquo; transversalit\u0026eacute; \u0026raquo;, mais en m\u0026ecirc;me temps, elle d\u0026eacute;montre autre chose : le besoin de remettre en question les r\u0026ocirc;les que jouent le langage et la lisibilit\u0026eacute; pour qui est reconnu comme humain. L\u0026rsquo;art de Wu Tsang \u0026ndash; entre autres, le fameux long-m\u0026eacute;trage WILDNESS (2012) tourn\u0026eacute; au Silver Platter, un bar fr\u0026eacute;quent\u0026eacute; par la communaut\u0026eacute; LGBT latino-am\u0026eacute;ricaine de Los Angeles \u0026ndash; peut \u0026ecirc;tre vu comme une r\u0026eacute;instrumentalisation de la politique de l\u0026rsquo;identit\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; la mesure de notre \u0026eacute;poque, comme un objectif auquel il ne faudrait pas renoncer tant qu\u0026rsquo;il n\u0026rsquo;est pas sans danger de le faire.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"United States","place":"Los Angeles","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}},{"country":"United States","place":"","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}