New Adventures of Havoc in Heaven III (2010)
Jennifer Wen Ma performance at the Sydney Opera House for the 17th Biennale of Sydney on Friday, 14th May.
Jennifer Wen Ma presented a spectacular smoke projection, beaming an animated image of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, a popular and irreverent figure in Chinese mythology, onto a cloud of smoke in the sky. The movement of the smoke was choreographed by the graceful movements of a trained performer, and the Monkey King danced overhead in a playful fusion of tradition and technology.
Video produced by Caddie Brain and Tega Brain from COFA Online
About Jennifer Wen Ma
Born 1973 in Beijing, China.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Jennifer Wen Ma’s work takes a variety of forms, from video projections and sculptures, to drawings and interactive installations. As well as New Adventures of Havoc in Heaven III, Ma also shows a new work at the Art Gallery of NSW. Petrified Garden (2010) is a large bonsai composition made out of Australian native plants, whose foliage has been completely blackened with Chinese ink. The flowers remain in their natural colours, creating a striking contrast, made all the more strange by the colour of new growth that occurs throughout the exhibition.