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The artist, curator, and organizer opens up and blurs the boundaries between categories, experimenting with new spaces and methods of moving through the world.

Paul Wong seems to always be in motion. The 69-year-old artist, curator, and organizer co-founded the Satellite Video Exchange Society, now VIVO Media Arts Center, which celebrates its 51st anniversary this year. But he’s not resting on his laurels: As he spoke over Zoom from his spacious Vancouver studio, he picked up his laptop and panned to black-and-white photographs and sheets of printed text pinned to his wall, a glimpse into the preparation of a Vancouver Art Gallery show he’s curating on the Japanese-Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama.

Wong has also developed Pride in Chinatown, an annual series of exhibitions and performances rooted in a 2018 residency at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver. While telling me this, he flung his distressed jean jacket open like a superhero, baring a black t-shirt with “Pride in Chinatown” printed in hot pink. He recently premiered his first sound installation, “Be Like Sound” (2022) — a riff on Bruce Lee’s famous quote, “Be like water.” Indeed, our conversation flowed freely with a fluidity that permeates his work at large, blurring the boundaries between categories and experimenting with methods of moving through the world.