Yu-Ching Wang
Yu-Ching Wang
Breathing in New York
DATE & TIME
Friday, September 23, 1-4pm
Saturday, September 24, 1-4pm 
Sunday, September 25, 1-4pm
LOCATION
At Large
In this performative action, Yu-Ching Wang covers her head with a plastic bag with a colorful Key Food label to hide her identity, which could also be seen as protection against COVID. She imagined a connection between three seemingly unrelated but concurrent events in New York City: the mask mandate due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the plastic bag ban, and her personal experience of being called ''Chinese, Mask'' by two white men while walking down the street. Therefore, she thought that if she covered her head, people wouldn't be able to know her identity.
wangyuching.com/breathing-in-new-yorkYu-Ching Wang is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist based in New York who works in video, performance, installation, and photography. Her recent works focus on exploring the social and cultural elements through her identity to reveal the situation of foreigners, Asians, and immigrants in the U.S.
@wangyuching