Justin Wong
b. 1997, lives and works in LondonCONTACT
︎ info@chunyuewong.com︎ instagram
︎ are.na/justin-wong
PRACTICE
Justin is an interdisciplinary designer working at the intersections of apparel design, ecology, and scholarship. Inspired by non-human ecologies and social formations of ungovernability, his practice explores avenues for forging more-than-human relations for mutual flourishing. Drawing from theories of race, animality, and political ecology, his research interrogates mechanisms that uphold White humanism and seeks to decolonize the racialized conception of the “human.” He is currently interested in tracing the spectral potentials of non-human actors, particularly at molecular and microbial scales.EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFACLIENTS + COLLABORATORS
Herschel Supply, Hong Kong Tatler, Kapok, MatchesFashion, Marni, Mr Porter, Six Lee,Wales Bonner
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2021 - Guest lecture: Food Cosmogonies, hosted by The Gramounce and Barns Art Center
2021 (ongoing) - Viral Abstractions
2021 - Animals and Epidemic Orientalism: Reconsidering the Taxonomies of Covid-19, FAR-NEAR, co-written with Diana Ryu and Rachel Wang
2019 - Diving for Pearls, BA-3
2018 - Obscured by Illusions, BA-2
2019 - BFA Fashion Show. SAIC, Chicago
2017 - 5354: Neither Here, Nor There. SUGs Gallery, Chicago
2016 - Artbash. SAIC, Chicago
2015 - Six With Six: A Retrospective Journey. Hong Kong
︎ Currently reading:
Photography After Capitalism, Ben Burbridge
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, Alexis Shotwell
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferre, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
SELECT WORK
Upcoming - An Index for AZOA-1, FAR-NEAR2021 - Guest lecture: Food Cosmogonies, hosted by The Gramounce and Barns Art Center
2021 (ongoing) - Viral Abstractions
2021 - Animals and Epidemic Orientalism: Reconsidering the Taxonomies of Covid-19, FAR-NEAR, co-written with Diana Ryu and Rachel Wang
2019 - Diving for Pearls, BA-3
2018 - Obscured by Illusions, BA-2
EXHIBITIONS / RESIDENCIES
2021 - Digital Diasporas Finalist. China Residencies & Chronus Art Center, Shanghai2019 - BFA Fashion Show. SAIC, Chicago
2017 - 5354: Neither Here, Nor There. SUGs Gallery, Chicago
2016 - Artbash. SAIC, Chicago
2015 - Six With Six: A Retrospective Journey. Hong Kong
RESEARCH + MUSINGS
Molecular spectrality / futurist animisms / chronotopian forms of ungovernability /︎ Currently reading:
Photography After Capitalism, Ben Burbridge
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, Alexis Shotwell
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferre, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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