Performance: Wu Tsang in conversation with boychild

Los Angeles-based artist Wu Tsang discusses his practice with performance artist boychild, on the occasion of his participation in ICA exhibition Looks.

Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Massachussets, USA) graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Not in my language, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; A day in the life of bliss, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Moved by the Motion, Diverse Works, Houston, 2014; Re:New/Re:Play, Residency and Public Program, New Museum, New York, 2011.

Other group exhibitions include Real Humans, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 2015; Don't You Know Who I am? Art After Identity Politics, MuHKA, Antwerp; The Shape of a Right Statement – Cynthia Maughan with Ben Kinmont and Wu Tsang, Cubitt Artists, London, 2014; Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum, New York, 2013; Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2012; The Whitney Biennial, New York, 2010.

boychild is a Los Angeles-based performance artist. Her performances have been presented at MoMA PS1, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kulturhuset, MOCA Los Angeles, MOMA Warsaw, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Berghain. boychild has toured with Mykki Blanco, and collaborated with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Wu Tsang, as well as the streetwear label Hood By Air on an eponymous collection.