Joyce C Wong

A Few Images of A Funeral For Your Past

Joyce — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:56:41 +0000

Cat’s Cradle #1

Polyurethane, String

2011

1 of 3

A Dermic Vigil

Paper, Light

2012

Palm Garden

Plaster, Salt, Makeshift Garden Box

2011

Palm Garden Detail

Goodbye, So Long

Vellum Hands

2012

Goodbye, So Long Detail

If anyone has any pictures of the reception, please share them with me at joycecwong.art@gmail.com. I didn’t get a chance to take anything because I was reading palms! Thank you so much, and thanks to everyone who made it! What a crowd!

Show Coming Up! A Funeral For Your Past

Joyce — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:31:41 +0000

WOWEE! It’s been a long time since I last updated. But look for more updates coming up! I have a show at the Kirksville Arts Association from January 20th to February 20th. The reception is Friday, January 20th from 6-7pm. Refreshments will be provided! Here is the postcard:

Animal Masks

Joyce — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:34:31 +0000

Here is a photo of an interview some of us students at Maine College of Art had this summer with Sina Najafi, editor-in-chief of Cabinet Magazine. We wore my animal masks.

Adult’s Spelling Bee Images

Joyce — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:36:52 +0000

The images below are from the Adult’s Spelling Bee. Images from the event represent the contestants, winner, prize, and audience.

With the winner, Laura.

The Final Five contestants out of Eighteen.

The Judge’s Table.

Video footage to come!

Good News!

Joyce — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:24:09 +0000

I am now the official Artist in Residence at ATSU School of Osteopathic Medicine. Look forward to new work in the upcoming weeks.

Joyce — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:55:11 +0000

I think everyone deserves the right to be happy.

Credo

Joyce — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:56:57 +0000

Will the audience be willing?

to share?

to give to me?

to commit fully?

because I am fully committed

and only as committed as you are.

While I leave it up to chance,

but give them all of the tools

really, it’s all a lie.

I am learning to let go.

I am willing to be vulnerable.

Ultimately, I am the real audience.

ninety (eight) degrees

Joyce — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:34:22 +0000

After my last cinematheque class of the year (which, we watched a really, really great film tonight—more on that in a sec), I went for a run. Now, I’ve wanted to go on a run for a while now, but haven’t had the time. Running when it’s 91 degrees, even at night, after months of not taking it seriously was a pretty dumb idea. I made it up State Street, which is a fairly steep hill, around the corner and embarrassingly gave up after I passed a large bar crowd. Thinking about this failure drew up a few ideas that I can talk about for my critique in two weeks that I honestly have nothing to show. I guess I can talk about the spelling bee that I am organizing and the small gallery that I’m building. On top of that, my other working ideas include a maze of failure designed for ants, a series of photos of me wearing ornate and intricate hand sewn headdresses of flightless birds at airports, continuing on my palmistry, and my interests in noetic psychology. I also demonstrated to a friend tonight how I am able to continuously do heel clicks (happy kicks) with duality on both sides of my body for reasonably an hour. She suggested that I turn that into a street performance piece. While that could work, I don’t want that kind of a reputation in Portland. That would mean competing with electric-guitar-on-bike guy, the whistler, and retired-sailor-look-a-like-turned-jewelry-salesman guy (if you’ve been in Portland for one day, you would know exactly who I’m talking about).

The film we watched was called WR: The Mysteries of the Organism. Let me list a basic synopsis:

-Dry, hysterical, witty humor

-border line pornographic

-cult like protagonists

-like able characters

-crazy and uncomfortable doctor/patient scenarios

-communism

-fake military man

-white horse

-a really fantastic ending

It got me thinking that I would really like to visit the Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangely, Maine. Possibly this weekend or next. One of my professors for the class, Kenneth White built a orgone energy accumulator, which he donated to the MFA office, based off this film and the teachings of Wilhelm Reich. I can’t wait to try it out.

Orgone Energy Accumulator

If you’re interested in watching 80 minutes of enlightened absurdity, I highly recommend checking this film out. I might watch it a second time.

Adult’s Spelling Bee

Joyce — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:38:28 +0000

applicants for competition must be 18 or older.

if you’re under 18 and want to announce, let me know.

Untitled

Joyce — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:14:39 +0000

Again, this isn’t the usual forum for me to post this kind of thing, but now that this marks two personal blog posts, it is becoming the usual thing for this site?

I feel like I am a different person—meaning, I suddenly am feeling like I don’t want to leave Portland. I am a month through this 8 week summer intensive, and I’m feeling stressed out that there are still so many things I want to do in my art, etc., especially while I am here. Right now, I’m feeling more “Joyce” than I have in a really long time. I’m really liking it. This feels right. And good. But perhaps, I think I’m just living off the high of having Sina Najafi wear one of my animal masks during an educational interview.

Or maybe it’s not. Maybe I’m just really enjoying my life right now.