Museum of Chinese in America launched its inaugural Performing-Artist-In-Residence program in summer 2023, and welcomed a cohort of 4 performing artists to generate a theme-based project. This year’s theme, The Past in the Present, encourages the resident artists to explore the legacies and traditions they’ve carried on and to create a project that reflects their identity, creativity, and inspirations.

2020 Run Amok is an 18-minute video art project created by the resident performing artist Shu-Ying Chung. 2020 Run Amok welcomes spectators into a mind fried by the tropes and trends of social media, as these tangled synapses try to process the mayhem of 2020 and touchy topics from across the Chinese-speaking world.

Please note that this presentation will be in theater style, different from the presentation on Thursday February 22. If you’d like to see this project presented in video installation, please visit https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-emergence-pt-2-day-1/ for more information.

SCHEDULE

Saturday, February 24
4:00pm – 4:30pm
4:30pm – 5:00pm
5:00pm – 5:30pm
5:30pm – 6:00pm

Sunday, February 25
4:00pm – 4:30pm
4:30pm – 5:00pm
5:00pm – 5:30pm

ABOUT SHU-YING CHUNG

Having grown up in Taipei and now living in New York City, Shu-Ying Chung has worked as a director and editor of TV and web commercials at Albert Lan Creative, as an editor for the PBS television series Live from the Artists Den (including a special film that was released in theaters), and as post-production supervisor for Hearst Magazines. Chung has edited various short films, music videos, and editorial content for fashion websites, and wrote and directed a virtual reality film as well as a short film titled Removable, which won 17 awards throughout its festival run. Her personal projects draw inspiration from the true events of our unique moment in time, focusing on issues surrounding identity, justice, and power dynamics, in a way that challenges prevailing narratives and the tendency to tiptoe around sensitive topics.