Bingxu Wang

Bingxu was born and brought up in the center city of heavy industry in China, within a context that people always stress economics and production at the expense of art and culture. Fortunately, immersing in playing the piano and sketching, he became keenly interested in art and was equipped with basic concept of the aesthetics in his early childhood.

“I’m a 100% rebel at school.” As he describes himself, he oriented his path to art and stepped forward to speak out for minorities and disadvantaged people. In his sophomore year, he took part in the annual Pride Parade in Taipei and got interviewed as an exchange student by local media. Back in the mainland, he made a campus talk show on “Marriage Equality in China” at Liaoning University, in which he introduced alumni and professors to Chinese LGBT groups and their affirmative actions.

In 2017, Bingxu delivered a speech titled “Sex and Art” at Stanford. By inviting people from various backgrounds to the spotlight of art, he aims to maximum the educational effect of art so that people could be more respectful and tolerant of difference and diversity. He also hopes to popularize aesthetic education for citizens and to improve policy formulation for the art industry in China.

What drew you to the MA Arts Politics program?

Art reserves great power, but it is not easy to give a full play by practice. This program impresses me a lot because it offers me an interdisciplinary experience so that I can make my ideas and creations by combining multiple elements like language, technology, visual and performing arts, and politics. I believe that the program can inspire and teach me how to integrate them into one performance and inform me how to translate the concept and advocate that which so many people do not understand.