Video Installation - Commissioned work for IN TRANSIT 11

Ming Wong (Berlin)

Biji Diva

Wed, Jun 15–Sat, Jun 18, 2011
Wed, Jun 15, 2011
6 pm
Free admission
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
11 am–11.30 pm
Free admission
Fri, Jun 17, 2011
11 am–11.30 pm
Free admission
Sat, Jun 18, 2011
11–4.47 am
Free admission
Installation daily from 11.00 h
Biji Diva live Sat 18.06. at midnight
Ming Wong, Foto: Ming Wong

Ming Wong has a preference for taking film classics and making them his own by playing all the parts himself – be it in his Thomas Mann/Visconti homage “Life and Death in Venice”, the Fassbinder adaptation “Lerne Deutsch mit Petra von Kant” or his proverbial take on Douglas Sirk, “Life of Imitation”.

In his latest work, the object of his cultural theft is the Turkish singer Bülent Ersoy. Once a famous male actor in melodramatic movies, he caused shock and outrage by becoming a transgender queen – and is now considered the grande dame of Turkish song. Ming Wong and his mother, May, have re-enacted Ersoy’s life in four Karaoke videos. The installation can be enjoyed in a lounge bar for the duration of the festival.

For the grand finale June, 18, Ming and May Wong invite you to a gala show in which the young Bülent and the older Diva meet live on stage. Ming Wong steals the heels of the Turkish singing diva: Bülent Ersoy. Joined by his mother May Wong and a live band, “Bülent Wongsoy” belts out stories of a life from man to woman, vamp to tramp, from sensation to indignation.

In Transit 2011

Party

DJ Obstsalat, KJ Monk / Monster Ronson's, Karaoke, Pole dance for everybody

Performances Passage Through the Night

Jun 18, 2011