Oliver WANG
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To explore how American car culture has shaped Japanese aesthetics of design, craft, and self-expression, tracing trans-Pacific exchanges that connect material culture, visual style, and everyday forms of creativity. Wang will conduct fieldwork and interviews with car customizers and event organizers and participants influenced by American automotive culture. He will also visit lowrider hangouts with close connections to counterparts in Southern California, tracing how a visual language of creativity inspired by L.A.’s Chicano community becomes articulated through Japanese cultural contexts. Wang hopes to interpret these practices not only as social phenomena but as acts of aesthetic invention that reveal trans-Pacific artistic exchange and, in parallel, challenge narrow definitions of artistic practice, showing how creativity flourishes beyond galleries and museums – in garages, on city streets, and within grassroots communities.
ACC New York
ACC New York
ACC New York
ACC New York