Justin Wong
b. 1997, lives and works in LondonCONTACT
︎ info@chunyuewong.com︎ instagram
︎ are.na/justin-wong
PRACTICE
Justin is an interdisciplinary designer working at the intersections of apparel design, ecology, and scholarship. Inspired by non-human ecologies and social formations of ungovernability, his practice explores avenues for forging more-than-human relations for mutual flourishing. Drawing from theories of race, animality, and political ecology, his research interrogates mechanisms that uphold White humanism and seeks to decolonize the racialized conception of the “human.” He is currently interested in tracing the spectral potentials of non-human actors, particularly at molecular and microbial scales.EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFACLIENTS + COLLABORATORS
Herschel Supply, Hong Kong Tatler, Kapok, MatchesFashion, Marni, Mr Porter, Six Lee,Wales Bonner
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2022 - “Eating the Abject: Troubling Purity Narratives in Food,” lecture for The Gramounce
2022 - An Index for AZOA-1, FAR-NEAR Volume 4
2021 - Lecture on Food and Abjection: Food Cosmogonies, hosted by The Gramounce and Barns Art Center, NY
2021 (ongoing) - Viral Abstractions
2021 - Animals and Epidemic Orientalism: Reconsidering the Taxonomies of Covid-19, FAR-NEAR, co-written with Diana Ryu and Rachel Wang
2019 - Diving for Pearls, BA-3
2018 - Obscured by Illusions, BA-2
2019 - BFA Fashion Show. SAIC, Chicago
2017 - 5354: Neither Here, Nor There. SUGs Gallery, Chicago
2016 - Artbash. SAIC, Chicago
2015 - Six With Six: A Retrospective Journey. Hong Kong
︎ Currently reading:
Plastic Matter, Heather Davis
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the
Technology of Monsters, Jack Halberstram
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions, Michael D. Snediker
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling, Xine Yao
Last updated 20-11-2022
SELECT WORK
Upcoming (2023)- “Monstrous Mouths: Queer Resistance in a Cannibalistic Regime” lecture2022 - “Eating the Abject: Troubling Purity Narratives in Food,” lecture for The Gramounce
2022 - An Index for AZOA-1, FAR-NEAR Volume 4
2021 - Lecture on Food and Abjection: Food Cosmogonies, hosted by The Gramounce and Barns Art Center, NY
2021 (ongoing) - Viral Abstractions
2021 - Animals and Epidemic Orientalism: Reconsidering the Taxonomies of Covid-19, FAR-NEAR, co-written with Diana Ryu and Rachel Wang
2019 - Diving for Pearls, BA-3
2018 - Obscured by Illusions, BA-2
EXHIBITIONS / RESIDENCIES
2021 - Digital Diasporas Finalist. China Residencies & Chronus Art Center, Shanghai2019 - BFA Fashion Show. SAIC, Chicago
2017 - 5354: Neither Here, Nor There. SUGs Gallery, Chicago
2016 - Artbash. SAIC, Chicago
2015 - Six With Six: A Retrospective Journey. Hong Kong
RESEARCH + MUSINGS
Molecular spectrality / futurist animisms / chronotopian forms of ungovernability /︎ Currently reading:
Plastic Matter, Heather Davis
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the
Technology of Monsters, Jack Halberstram
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions, Michael D. Snediker
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling, Xine Yao
Last updated 20-11-2022