Wang Tuo
KADIST San Francisco is pleased to welcome Wang Tuo for a three-week residency to connect to the San Francisco Bay Area art scene and the local community. Wang Tuo will pursue his new body of research examining cultural censorship and state ideology’s influence on the arts. Most recently he has been investigating how China promotes art that centers technological advancement to support international and state propaganda while other art forms face severe censorship and control. Timed to his residency, Wang Tuo will be featured to launch The Screening Room, a new space at KADIST San Francisco dedicated to video works by artists from KADIST Collection, from April 14 to August 12, 2023. Wang Tuo’s recent work, The Northeast Tetralog y (2017-2022) is a unique examination of China’s modern history with the Northeastern region’s contentious geopolitical position as a point of entry. The films interweave resurfaced suppressed modern histories such as the May 4th Movement and the Jeju Uprising, current-day events, and an imagined near future. Wang Tuo puts forth the notion of “pan-shamanism” which explores a collective unconscious as a catalyst for shared belief or power, and its potential as a medium to connect histories through time and space. Wang Tuo was awarded the fully-funded research residency as part of the OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Residency Program 2020 . Wang Tuo, The Interrogation (2017) is available to view as a special feature on KADIST.tv , through August 12. Wang Tuo (b. 1984, Changchun. Lives and works in Beijing) interweaves disparate realities from archives, modern history, myth, and literature through film, performance, painting, and drawing to examine modern Chinese history.