Sarah Wong (she/her) is an emerging writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Sarah’s work emerges from her lived experience as a queer and disabled second-generation Chinese-Canadian. She explores themes of identity and ancestry as a path to foster embodied agency and create structures for rest. Her practice is engrossed in archival processes, often making use of everyday materials as artifacts, as well as viewing the body as its own archive of intergenerational knowledge. She engages with her creative process as an act of recording history, a mode of persistent memory making that traces the evolution of her family’s lineage.
Sarah’s practice exists in a conversation of resistance towards conditioned ways of moving, creating, and being. She views choreography as a multifaceted structure that can extend beyond the body and into language and materials. She aims to make room for the multiple, which nurtures her interdisciplinary practice that is open to diverse possibilities of expression. Her works have taken the form of score-based improvisational performances, ritual-based research, site-specific installation, wearable textiles, poetry, and multimedia zines.
At the core of Sarah’s practice are values of care, wellness, justice, and liberation. She strives to create structures for supportive collaboration that question capitalist notions of rigorous labour and enforced resilience. She is passionate about practicing art as a site for healing and aspires to live in a reality that is both complex and compassionate. She believes deeply in the capacity for multiple truths to coexist.
Sarah’s work has been presented in Vancouver by Arts Assembly, Number 3 Gallery, New Works, Hatch Art Gallery, The Dance Centre, IGNITE! Youth Arts Festival, Vines Art Festival, and Boombox, and internationally by Mosaico Danza Interplay Festival (Italy) and Sàn Art (Vietnam). As a dance artist, she has worked for Dumb Instrument Dance, Kinesis Dance somatheatro, Mardon + Mitsuhashi and plastic orchid factory. Sarah’s writing has been featured in Queering Friendships Zine by Mixed Rice Zines, fever dreams by plastic orchid factory, and Mot Juste Magazine by Alexandrina Fleming. In 2021, she completed an artistic mentorship with Justine A. Chambers through the support of the BC Arts Council Early Career Development Program. Sarah is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in Art History and minor in Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia, while continuing to practice as an artist.
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