Learn Swedish With Susan Wongtag / Lär dig svenska med Susan Wongtag
single channel HD video installation, 2023, color with stereo audio
Duration: 04:50mins
During the artist's tenure as "professor of fine art specialising in performance in the expanded field" at the Royal Art Institute, Ming Wong adopted a new persona inspired by Susan Sontag, the American writer, cultural theorist and filmmaker, who lived for a period in Stockholm in 1969 and wrote a critique of Swedish society entitled "A Letter from Sweden". Originally commissioned as a public art work in an underground station in Stockholm, the video features Susan Wongtag repeating selected parts of the infamous letter, translated into Swedish.
Shown at Skanstull metro station, Stockholm, from 1 April to 30 June 2024, as part of Region Stockholm’s Konstväxlingar programme, and at Spårvägsmuseet (Tramway Museum) during the Easter school holidays.
