Hello and welcome to Innervision, Lafayette Anticipations’ audio tour podcast designed by the facilitation team. Let us take you on a sound journey to the heart of contemporary creation. Season 1: Wu Tsang’s visionary company exhibition. 

Before entering the exhibition, let’s get to know Wu Tsang whose exhibition is being presented at Lafayette Anticipations from October 2020 to May 2021.

Wu Tsang is an American artist born in 1982. She studied Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 

In her works, she weaves together different performing arts such as performance, music or theatre, and film. 

Through her involvement in the organization of numerous events in marginalized communities, her performance and video work mixes documentary and fiction in a profoundly collaborative practice.

The film that garnered her international recognition is entitled Wildness and was made in 2012. In this work we discover a bar in Los Angeles, the Silver Platter, in which Wu Tsang was involved: a place for parties, gatherings, and community self-support. In this film, which could be likened to magical realism in literature, the bar itself acts as an omniscient narrator describing the daily life of the community that occupies it.

With this film, Wu Tsang develops a language. Starting from shifting and pluralistic working communities, she diverts and appropriates the tools of cinema in order to make hidden stories and marginalized narratives visible.

In 2016, this collective artistic practice was formalized with the Moved by the Motion collective, which she co-founded with Tosh Basco. Formerly known as Boychild, the latter defines herself as a “movement practitioner”. This group also includes experimental cellist Patrick Belaga, electronic musician and DJ Asma Maroof, dancer Josh Johnson, and Fred Moten, poet and thinker of “blackness”. 

The films, sculptures, and installations of Wu Tsang and this collective are presented in the exhibition visionary company.

This set of works is based on a previously unseen piece, a film entitled The show is over,. The film is a montage of several sequences called Compositions, made during the collective’s residency at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. With its many authors, the film is punctuated by the sound of Fred Moten’s evolutionary poem, “Come on, get it!”.

Co-produced with the Foundation’s teams and workshops, the exhibition takes place on three floors in an overall scenography that extends the themes explored by Wu Tsang and Moved by the Motion.

Join us for a sound portrait of this exhibition through a series of podcasts produced by the Foundation’s mediation team.