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Casey Wei

Casey Wei (born 1985) is a Vancouver based artist working on multidisciplinary art, film and music.

Life

Casey Wei was born in 1985 in Shanghai. She finished her MFA degree in SFU in 2012 and made her first film Murky Colors based on her father’s novel and adapted to the styles of Hollywood film⑮(lost). In 2014, her video work Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子 (2014) was screened in The Cinematheque as part of the DIM cinema program. In Wei’s film, she explored the relationship between family, memories and history by collaging self-shoot and appropriated footage⑭.

Art practice

Started in film making, Casey Wei has gone on to work across disciplines such as music, art and performance. In 2016, she started the label Agony Klub which include music and printed matter under the framework of “popularesoteric”, as a space to push the boundary between rock show and gallery⑥. In 2017, Casey Wei held an event called Karaoke Video Maker Free Store that provided music video making or audience.

Selected performance:

Kingsgate Happenings

Kingsgate Happening is an event held by Casey Wei near Kingsgate Mall that happened across June in 2014, serving as part of the dialogue between Western Front, local artists and the Kingsgate Mall⑧. In the event, she booked bands to perform as a response to “Go Your Own Waste”⑨.  The documentation of the event reflected the Vancouver art and music scene.

Selected Film：

Murky Colors (2012)

Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子 (2014).

Selected Music:

Kamikaze Nurse

hazy

Late Spring⑦

Selected Publication

• Ozu's Seasons: Casey Wei ⑯, Edition of 100, Printed & bound by Colour Code, December 2017
• Selected Exhibition
• Screening of Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子 17, The Cinematique, the Cinematheque’s DIM program, Vancouver 2014
• Sum of the parts ④, Pollyanna Library, Vancouver 2018
• (Artists involved: Deanna Bowen, Felix Kalmenson, Divya Mehra, Krista Belle Stewart and Casey Wei)
• Pink noise pop up ⑩, ONE AND J. +1 (Seoul), Space One (Seoul), grunt gallery (Vancouver) 2018
• (Artists involved: Jeneen Frei Njootli, Krista Belle Stewart, Ron Tran and Casey Wei, Ga Ram Kim and Yaloo.)
• Casey Wei Screening at The Cinematheque ⑬, The Cinematheque, Vancouver, 2018
• Curator
• Art rock? ⑫, Vancouver, 2015

References

1. "Casey Wei". 221A. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
2. "Casey Wei: Kingsgate Happenings - Western Front". Retrieved 2020-03-11.
3. "Casey Wei". Capture Photography Festival. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
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5. November 5, authorNatalie DeeillustrationAmelia GarvinphotographyLukas Engelhardt; November 2015, 2015 Issue. "art rock?". CiTR. Retrieved 2020-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. "Casey Wei: Kingsgate Happenings - Western Front". Retrieved 2020-03-11.
7. June 2, Julie Colero; June 2014, 2014 Issue. "Vancouver's Waste-Makers". CiTR. Retrieved 2020-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
8. June 11, AuthorsBrit Bachmann; June 2017, 2017 Issue. "Late Spring Release Trembly Fog EP + Video". CiTR. Retrieved 2020-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
9. Press, Blank Cheque. "Ozu's Seasons: Casey Wei". Blank Cheque Press. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
10. "sum of the parts | AHVA - The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory". ahva.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
11. "pinknoisepopup". pinknoisepopup.com. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
12. "Casey Wei Screening at The Cinematheque". Pollyanna Library. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
13. November 5, authorNatalie DeeillustrationAmelia GarvinphotographyLukas Engelhardt; November 2015, 2015 Issue. "art rock?". CiTR. Retrieved 2020-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)