As a cross-media artist, researcher, curator and writer, wen yau has been concentrating on performance/live art, time-based media and social practices in the last few years. 

 

Her works often grapple with cultural difference and intimacy in public space.

 

Recent projects include Painting like an Artist (conceptual painting, 2010-), I am a Grade D Artist (mixed media, 2009-2013), Seeing is Existing (pinhole photographic series, 2008-), cop.ied (cross-media, 2008-), Civil Left/Right (video & performance, 2007-), i-(s)wear project (one-to-one performance, 2007-), TengSeWong/Voice-Writer series (media & live art, 2005-), I pledge (not) guilty (live art, 2004-05), etc.  Her work has been shown in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China (Beijing, Chengdu, Xi’an & Guangzhou), Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Burma, USA, Sweden, Finland, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, New Zealand, Bolivia, etc.  She is also actively engaged in various creative and arts educational projects and curated ”See Through” (2009-2011), “Talkover/Handover” (Hong Kong, 2007), “i-D Generations – Living Art Expo” (Hong Kong, 2005) and “LIVE+MAY” (Hong Kong, 2003). 

 

She has been working as Researcher for Hong Kong and Project Researcher at the Asia Art Archive and contributes to various newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and Asia.  She is also the co-founder of Woofer Ten, a local artspace based in Hong Kong advocating social practices.