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Henry Tsang
University of California, Irvine
Henry Tsang
is a visual artist and independent curator from Vancouver, where he
received his BFA from the University of British Columbia in 19986.
His installations and photography have been exhibited across Canada
and overseas. He has also worked in public art; his Welcome to the
Land of Light (1997) is a 100 metre-long permanent installation in
Vancouver consisting of light and text: fibre optic cable lighting
underscoring Chinook Jargon and English to speak about the promise
of technology and how different cultures have come to live together
in this part of the world.
In
2000, Tsang collaborated with a team of youth artists on a community
public
art project: The Mount Pleasant Golf & Country Club. A tournament
inaugurated 18 semi-permanent holes of miniature golf on three sites
in the inner-city neighborhood, with community workshops, a promotional
campaign and free memberships and equipment rental.The artist’s
current project is a 3-channel video projection that moves through
Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Las Vegas with a vertiginous ferocity that
is emblematic of the expansion and extension of urban and architectural
space. His zooms and pans of these cityscapes are both romantic and
aggressive, resulting in a disorientation that disrupts the viewer’s
sense of physical and psychological balance. |