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Kristina's Vagina on exhibition at "There Is No Sincerity Without Irony"
There Is No Sincerity Without Irony
Exhibition Explores How Sex Is Inherently Intersectional, Necessarily Seen Through Race and Feminism
Title: There Is No Sincerity Without Irony
Date: May 11 – June 8, 2024
Opening: Saturday, May 11, 4-6 pm (Performance by Kyoung eun Kang at 4:30 pm)
Address: AHL Foundation Gallery, 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030
Curator: Joyce Chung
Participating Artists: Sara Jimenaz, Kyoung eun Kang, Kakyoung Lee, Jiwon Rhie, Hyeree Ro, Kristina Wong, and Kim Ye
New York, NY (April 24, 2024) – AHL Foundation Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 AHL-Chun Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call Exhibition: “There Is No Sincerity Without Irony.” The exhibition explores the female reproductive system and its relevant activities through an intersectional framework of race and feminism.
Featuring seven Asian and Asian American female artists, including Sara Jimenaz, Kyoung Eun Kang, Kakyoung Lee, Jiwon Rhie, Hyeree Ro, Kristina Wong, and Kim Ye, the exhibition addresses specific female body parts and corporeal experiences. The works reflect how women’s engagement with their bodies shape and develop their perception of sex and sexual attitude.
The oppression of Asian women’s sexuality is similarly intertwined with culture specific norms such as parental influences, immigration, media play, and identity politics. What are the ways Asian women have claimed their sexual choices and demands, against exoticization, hypersexualization and hierarchy? What compromises have been made surrounding the fetishized Asian female body in relation to male heterosexuality?
“The artists represented here transgress the boundaries set for them by utilizing body knowledge, law, and the methodology of post-colonialism,” says Joyce Chung. “Each work emphasizes how women’s bodies can in turn become a site for building and exercising self-determination and agency.”
“There Is No Sincerity Without Irony” reveals that the absurdities associated with Asian women’s bodies cannot be explained as a simple combination of elements such as misogyny and racism; however, it can be used as a reminder and a tool to produce sincerity, an acknowledgement of the exploitations and a desire to provoke moral certainty and political action to banish the persistent irony. Attuning to vernacular sexuality and feminisms, the exhibition strives to facilitate critical contemplation around the shared pasts, present, and possible futures surrounding women’s bodies.
“There Is No Sincerity Without Irony” will be accompanied by a screening and panel discussion on May 18 about prostitution law in collaboration with Red Canary Song, a collective of Asian & migrant sex workers and allies in New York. The program maps different stakeholders and temporalities as an exercise in liberating notions of what women’s bodies can do.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Saturday, May 11, from 4-6 pm, featuring a performance by Kyoung eun Kang at 4:30 pm. The work explores a woman’s journey of self-discovery and relationship with her body through
It runs through June 8, 2024, at the AHL Foundation Gallery, located at 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030 (corner of 139th Street). Public hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 6 pm.
For more information, please visit www.ahlfoundation.org or contact info@ahlfoundation.org
Kristina giving KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT AANHPI Summit
I am beyond thrilled to share that I'll be speaking at the @asianpacificfund’s 2024 AANHPI Summit: Reclaiming and Redefining Our Mental Health! Join me for what promises to be an inspiring event where we'll dive deep into crucial conversations about mental health within our AANHPI community.
As a Bay Area native, this cause is incredibly close to my heart, and I can't wait to share my journey with you all. From my experiences as a performer, comedian, actor, writer, and even a former elected official, I've seen firsthand the importance of mental health advocacy, especially in our community.
I'll be sharing insights and inspiration from my own path, including my latest performance art piece, "Sweatshop Overlord," which delves into some timely and important themes. From navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to addressing systemic issues like #antiAsian racism, we'll cover it all with my trademark wit and humor.
Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 6, 2024, at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Let's come together, learn, and reclaim our mental health. I can't wait to see you there!
Grab your tickets now at https://2024aanhpisummit.eventbrite.com and let's make a difference together. Don't miss out!
Creative Capital Carnival
No performance or presentation from me, but as a Board member of Creative Capital, I encourage you to come meet our new class of grantees! I will be there!
“KRISTINA WONG, FOOD BANK INFLUENCER” makes its CULMINATING premiere at ASU GAMMAGE!
ASU Gammage's artist-in-residence, Kristina Wong, returns to the stage combining comedy, theater and conversation in #FoodBankInfluencer, Wong's newest work-in-progress. The show is determined to change the narrative around food banks through an immersive experience, commentary on systems and distribution and investigating the impact of food insecurity.
POSTPONED: KRISTINA AND PRODUCERS OF RADICAL CRAM SCHOOL ON A PANEL AT TEACHING FOR JUSTICE CONFERENCE at UC IRVINE
UPDATE: THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
We’ll be talking about our forthcoming book “Auntie Kristina’s Guide to Asian American Activism” (Beaming Books, Spring 2026)!
🔥Register for the “Teaching for Justice 2024” conference here.
POSTPONED: Rites of Passage at Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA
This event is postponed.
🏆Will be performing at the Sunday show. Event description here!
Acclaimed artist Daniel Alexander Jones curates an original series exclusively for CAP UCLA and the UCLA Nimoy Theater. A Guggenheim Fellow and Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Jones is a modern renaissance-man, accomplished in music, theater and literature. His work “creates multi-dimensional experiences where bodies, minds, emotions, voices, and spirits conjoin, shimmer, and heal.” (Herb Alpert Foundation)
Featuring renowned artists Lynell George, Roger Guenveur Smith, Luis Alfaro, Adelina Anthony, Alice Tuan and Kristina Wong, alongside their chosen LA-based collaborators, Rites of Passage is a celebration of The Nimoy’s opening season centering the arts as a tool to enliven the past, present and future of civic life.
"Hold You So Tight" West Coast Premiere at Beverly Hills Film Festival
I am doing a run of my show in San Francisco, so won’t be there in person but come visit me on the screen!
We’re in Block 6 at 3:45pm!!
Kristina on “Creator Forum: Non-Western Practice”
Join us online this Tuesday, March 12, for a very special artist panel on Asian American performing artists working in non-Western forms, styles, and themes. Pulitzer-finalist theatre-maker Kristina Wong, international award-winning musician Ken Ueno, and National Dance Project grantee and director of Nava Dance Theatre, Nadhi Thekkek. 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern.
🎟Free to attend, REGISTER HERE!
Residency Week at ASU Gammage
As part of my three year Artist-in-Residency at ASU Gammage, I will be on campus this week.
Work in Progress “Kristina Wong Food Bank Influencer” with Audience Q&A to Follow
Hope to see you there!
Gallery Visit at UARTS in PHILADELPHIA
I’ll be in the gallery with my vagina costume, talking about it!
Kristina Hosts "Rage, She Wrote" at the Los Angeles Central Library
Join us for an evening of women artists and thinkers who have individually mined the controversial subject of “female fury.” We’ll pull back the curtain on female archetypes and delve more deeply into the power behind female rage.
LUNAR NEW YEAR DINNER IN CHINATOWN BENEFITTING API RISE
🧧THIS WILL SELL OUT! RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE!
I’m a board member of API Rise and proud to usher in our first ever Lunar New Year dinner in Los Angeles Chinatown. It’s our way of bringing together family to ring in the Year of the Dragon and everyone is invited!
Residency Week at ASU Gammage
As part of my three year Artist-in-Residency at ASU Gammage, I will be on campus this week!
Kristina Wong for Public Office at Hopkins Center for The Performing Arts at Dartmouth
Five shows only! One weekend!
Kristina Wong for Public Office is a 65-minute comedic performance that crosses the aesthetics of campaign rallies, church revivals and solo theater shows to tell the story of what it means to run for local office, the history of voting and the impact artists can have on democracy.
🇺🇸 JAN12
Friday7:30 PM
Theater on Currier
Tickets: $45+1h30m GET TICKETS
🇺🇸 JAN13
Saturday2:00 PM
Theater on Currier
Tickets: $45+1h30m GET TICKETS
🇺🇸 JAN13
Saturday7:30 PM
Theater on Currier
Tickets: $45+1h30m GET TICKETS
🇺🇸 JAN14
Sunday2:00 PM
Theater on Currier
Tickets: $45+1h30m GET TICKETS
🇺🇸 JAN14
Sunday7:30 PM
Theater on Currier
Tickets: $45+1h30m GET TICKETS
Kristina Wong in Conversation "Politics in/as Performance"
Can humor fix a broken political system? Can art?
23/24 PUBLIC TALK
Comedian/actress/writer/performance artist Kristina Wong sits down with the Rockefeller Center's Herschel Nachlis to discuss the artist's role in political discourse and the blurry lines between performance, campaigning and American politics.
Nachlis is Associate Director and Senior Policy Fellow of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth, and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Government.
Presented by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social Sciences in collaboration with the Hop.
Stage. Stream. Strike: A moderated panel conversation with Women Writers.
RSVP! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/755729646717?aff=oddtdtcreator
Specifics
What: Stage. Stream. Strike: A moderated panel conversation with Women Writers. Moderated by Paula Killen. featuring panelists: Angela Nissel, Jamie Pachino, Kristina Wong and Tanya White
Date: Friday, November 17th
Location: Highways Performance Space
Address: 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Parking: Parking is available on Olympic Blvd (free after 6pm) on 18th Street and in a parking lot immediately north of the venue. Please see attached map. Parking spaces are highlighted yellow and the red arrow is pointing to the entrance.
RSVP IS REQUIRED and all tickets are free w/ a suggested donation. We believe money should never be a barrier to enjoying theater. If donating presents a financial hardship, just email us at tanya@santamonica and we'll secure your RSVP.
Kristina hosts private event for Doris Duke Foundation
Special private event for Doris Duke staff in Los Angeles!
Kristina SHARING WORK IN PROGRESS IN NYC
🔥RSVP here. Event is free!
On Monday, November 13th, Kristina Wong will be presenting a work-in-progress performance of her new show Kristina Wong: #FoodBankInfluencer. Kristina was the recipient of the 2023 Joan D. Firestone Fund awarded by En Garde Arts. The Joan D. Firestone Fund is a five-year program that presents an unrestricted award of $18,000 to a theatre artist to support the development of a new work at the intersection of theatre and social change.
Kristina will be sharing stories and slides of her work as a food bank influencer in Los Angeles, the Navajo Nation and beyond. Peppered with Karaoke songs with her original lyrics, Kristina will help us to look at the future of emergency food. If food banks were originally a stop gap for a temporary crisis and now have become a permanent part of American survival, does this mean we are in a perpetual state of crisis?
Kristina Wong is the recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Award, one of only six artists awarded throughout the country. She is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama.
The Joan D. Firestone Fund recipient of 2024 is Taibi Magar. She is the Co-Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Company. This award will provide her with the resources to begin work on her newest project Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, a riveting story about a whale violently captured by the Miami Seaquarium who died in captivity despite a decades long battle by the Lumi Nation to bring her home.
The committee choosing the recipient consisted of: Kim Bendheim, Linda Chapman, Joan D. Firestone, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage and Kristina Wong. Public sharings each year are part of the En Garde Arts Uncommon Voices series.
The event will begin at 7 pm and be held at Theater 511 at 511 West 54th Street. Cash Bar
“A Celebration for Resilience” Chef Jose Andres in conversation with Kristina Wong
The Annual Celebration held by the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience from ASU. Featuring world-renowned, food-justice advocate Chef José Andrés as the keynote speaker interviewed by current ASU Gammage Artist in Residence, Kristina Wong.Chef José Andrés has a number of accolades including being named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People” in both 2012 and 2018. Andrés is the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. Andrés holds two Michelin-stars across the East-Coast and created the nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCF), deploying food and aid to countries around the world facing difficult situations be it from environmental, political, or social issues.
Kristina Wong holds her own share of awards, including: the Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama. Kristina uses her talent as performance artist, comedian, actor and writer to inspire social change and justice. She is the founder of the Aunties Sewing Squad, a national mutual aid network of volunteers that sewed cloth masks for vulnerable communities through the COVID-19 pandemic and is currently undertaking a new role as a "Food Bank Influencer”.
This inspiring event will stir the minds and reach the hearts of those who seek change fora brighter future. Accompanied by Spanish guitar performed by Peter Torsiello, the 2023 Fellows honored at the event will pave the way to Arizona’s resilient tomorrow.
Kristina in residence at ASU Gammage
At ASU Tempe all week doing residency activities in this community!
Kristina gives Distinguished Lecture at ASU Graduate College
Sex, Lies and Food Banks: Reimagining the Future of Emergency Food
Join ASU's Graduate College for an entertaining and thought-provoking discussion with Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Gammage artist in residence and self-proclaimed "food bank influencer," Kristina Wong. She will speak about food disparity, uncovering crucial resources and how students can jump-start personal activism.
A 45-minute Q&A with Kristina Wong will follow the lecture. Guest panelists will be Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Maureen McCoy, Associate Teaching Professor (FSC), College of Health Solutions, Steve Short, Owner, Atlasta and moderated by GPSA President Megan McCaughan.
You can submit questions for Kristina Wong and the panel in advance through your event registration.
12:30 p.m. - Event registration opens, refreshments served
1:30 p.m. - Lecture with Kristina Wong
2:15 p.m. - Panel Discussion and Q&A
3 p.m. - Event Conclusion
The lecture will be live-streamed, but we encourage you to attend in person. Registration is required for both formats.
Kristina at Wabash College in Indiana
Time TBD- Meet & Greet with Asian Studies students for coffee or breakfast while on campus
12 pm Lunchtime Talk or Workshop
7:30 pm In progress showing of “Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer. Info here
Kristina at Drexel University
INFO HERE
Wednesday - Times TBD
Classroom Workshop
Keynote on Auntie Sewing Squad
Thursday night
Mandell Presents:
Kristina Wong - Food Bank Influencer
October 12, 2023 | 7PM | Mandell Theater
Written and performed by Kristina Wong
Tickets are free but registration is required.
KRISTINA IS EMCEE of KYCC’s ONLINE VIRTUAL BENEFIT (ONLINE!)
Tune in on Wednesday, October 4, for KYCC’s 22nd Annual Virtual Benefit Concert as we celebrate “Our Town, Koreatown”. The evening will feature the businesses that define our community and music from Stephanie Poetri, SURAN, Presilla Ahn, and Nayoon. The evening will be hosted by Kristina Wong.
RSVP here and we look forward to seeing you there!
Kristina’s Artist in Residence week at ASU Gammage
As part of the 2nd year of my 3 year Artist-in-Residence at ASU Gammage, I will be in-residence doing activities with the local ASU Tempe community.
Creative Capital Artist Benefit + Banquet IN NYC
I’m not performing or featured, I’m just on the Artist Host committee and encourage you to come to this if you are in NYC and want to support Creative Capital. I sit on their board!
Kristina gives a Keynote at Colby College
EVENT TITLE: Celebration of the Arts - Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts Opening
EVENT LOCATION: Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts - 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, Maine, 04901
Kristina is giving a keynote conversation!!!
KRISTINA AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
Dreaming the Future of Free Food: A Sewing Bee! A Singing Bee!
With Kristina Wong! With Special Guest Brian Feldman!
Inside the REACH | STUDIO J
As part of the development process for her newest work "Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer"-- Pulitzer Prize Finalist Kristina Wong will be at The REACH’s Studio J dreaming up the cool new future of emergency food distribution with visitors. We will test drive wild possibilities for what a food bank could be with your help!
Thurs. Aug. 3, 2023 – Sat. Aug. 5, 2023
FREE! Drop in!