interdisciplinary art
Interdisciplinary projects I’ve worked on/am working on:
Restaurant Baby Ceramics
Creating ceramics inspired by nourishment and process based play.
“Seaweed Song” at the University of British Columbia
Weaving a community book out of seaweed, thread, and poetry. Learn more here.
“The Long Labors” at the Richmond Art Gallery and Asian Art Museum
I cut out words from my poem “The Long Labors” using rice paper and folded these words into my mother’s dumpling mix while reading. The video is currently on view at the Asian Art Museum through “Bernice Bing: Open Call.” Originally performed as part of UW Bothell’s virtual Fall Convergence, where I ate my poem.
“Seeds of Renewal” at the Association for Asian American Studies
A collaborative papermaking project with Diana Khoi Nguyen, Nick Gulig, and Lilly Lam where we pulped care packages to each other to make paper and new art.
“Radical Altars to Alter” at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University
A collaboration with Diana Khoi Nguyen utilizing audio and video archives to “alter” the entangled past, present, and future of our familial and literary lineages.
Learn more here.
“Nourish” at the Richmond Art Gallery
Three pieces for a group show called “Nourish.” Below is an installation made of rice bag pillows donated by local Richmond restaurants and my mother. Learn more about the show and my co-artists Mizzonk.
“Bao Liners” at the Association for Asian American Studies
Steamed bao I made with these “poetry” liners from How to Not Be Afraid of Everything.
“After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” at the Frye Art Museum
Solo exhibition featuring altars, sculptural poems, and personal effects that provoke deeper understandings of food waste and the realities of low-income immigrant families. Learn more here.
The Poetics of Haunting in Asian American Poetry
A digital humanities project supported by the University of Washington and the NEH (as part of my dissertation, Going Toward the Ghost: The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Asian American Poetry). The project considers how social, historical, and political contexts “haunt” the work of contemporary Asian American poets.
Media
Select podcasts, videos, workshops, & more:
Read T a Poem
Musician Audrey Nuna reads my poem “I Put on My Fur Coat” for The New York Times Style Magazine. Watch it here.
Poem-a-day
Listen to me read and talk about “The Waiting”:
Seattle Public Library’s Seattle Writes Series
“Writing Deliciously: The Poetry of Food with Jane Wong”
Watch/write with me below:
Virtual Visits at the Frye Art Museum
Watch/cook with me below:
Ours Poetica
Listen to “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”:
Asian American Writers Workshop
Poets Jane Wong, Carlina Duan, Christine Shan Shan Hou, and Muriel Leung explore the ways histories impact the work of Asian American writing across time and space
Read more here and watch below:
TEDx
My talk on haunting and poetry: "Jane takes us from the Great Leap Forward to going toward the ghost, arguing that her role as an Asian American poet is to bear witness to a "history of trauma and migration", and offers that this is a "poetics of haunting" that is essential to reclaim histories and narratives that remain untold, or worse, are simply forgotten."
Watch below:
KUOW/NPR
An interview with Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong: “Have you Eaten Yet?” Poet Jane Wong Prepares Her Ancestors A Feast.”
“In it, she imagines the meal her ancestors might make for themselves: chicken feet, pizza, the pizza box, a single flip flop.”
