Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/12-03-2024 -Event 2

Guest Tutor Yin Yin Wong workshop Large project space 10am-4pm

Workshop: Comic relief Through playful exercises, Yin Yin Wong will host a series of workshops aimed at bridging various social and cultural thresholds through the use of humour and storytelling. Taking inspiration from stand up comedy, comic books and memes amongst other things, this workshop-series investigates the political potency of humour in a time of enduring grief and increasing polarisation. BIO: Yin Yin Wong is a multidisciplinary artist working across a range of media including film, sculpture, drawing and site specific installation. Previously as Publication Studio Rotterdam (2015–2021) they worked largely around themes of distribution, dissemination and circulation of visual culture through publishing artist books and curating exhibitions departing from text.

Currently they are researching possible bridges and juxtapositions between their modernist graphic design education and their childhood growing up in a Malaysian-Chinese restaurant in the Netherlands. By focussing on themself as a site where different legacies and languages converge and complicate eachother, Wong looks for overlaps that speak cross-culturally. Through an auto-etnographic lens they question the dominant frameworks that permeate nearly every aspect of their life.