WILDNESS
Wu Tsang
American, born 1982
2012
WILDNESS is a 75-minute color video with sound in which Wu Tsang blurs documentary and staged scenes to follow a nocturnal urban community and probe performance, gender, and belonging.
The imagery is intimate and cinematic—warm, shadowed light, brick and neon backdrops, and close-up bodies and faces that hover between guardedness and openness, as if caught mid-performance.
By collapsing documentary and fiction and centering queer and trans lives, WILDNESS broadened how contemporary moving-image art represents marginalized communities and treats nightlife as a site of social and political formation.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
75 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Accession
1126.2014
Palette
Exhibitions
