Critical Writing Index

Smash: Reflecting Sex: Video Clips 1976-2002

by Winston Xin

Art Star 3 Video Biennal, 2007

Ottawa: Galerie SAW Gallery, 2007

A concise overview of Winston Xin's curating of Paul Wong's thirty years of video art in Smash: Reflecting Sex (2002). Tired of the commodification of queer culture in recent years, Xin compiled an anti-Pride program incorporating Wong's old and new work on death, race, and sexuality that transcends identitarian definitions. Xin believes that the remixing of Wong's work serves to reach younger and new audiences not familiar with his video legacy, but also a chance to reclaim new meaning from older works.

ITEM 2007.132 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Born Under Surveillance – Paul Wong

Body Fluid – Paul Wong

4 – Paul Wong

So Are You – Paul Wong

Confused sexual Views – Paul Wong

Confused – Paul Wong

Controversy – Paul Wong

Support Modeling – Paul Wong

Prime Cuts – Paul Wong

Blending Milk & Water: Sex in the New World – Paul Wong

Ordinary Shadows/Chinese Shade – Paul Wong

Wah-Q – Paul Wong

60 Unit Bruise – Paul Wong