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Ming Wong 黃漢明
Ham&cheeseomelet 哈姆雷特問題
2001
Ming Wong uses performance and cinematic techniques to explore language, identity, and gender, often playfully upsetting expectations and social conventions. In this early work, Wong dresses as William Shakespeare, complete with wig, moustache, and Elizabethan ruff made of paper frills. In a kind of one-man show, he performs Shakespeare’s famous phrase ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’, from Hamlet. But Wong’s speech is repeatedly cut and edited to produce a scrambled result. The sound parodies this apex of English literature, twisting the words and illustrating the fundamental instability of language.
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