Wu Tsangs’s works engage collaboration as subject and method. Her films, installations, performances, and sculptures move fluidly between documentary, activism, and fiction. She often works with the voice as a medium and metaphor for (in)communicability.
The secret life of things is open is set in the library/smoking room of the Club de Bâle as an underground space of study. The artist constructs a library of sorts, composed of fragments of an ongoing collaboration with poet and theorist Fred Moten that includes films, sound, and printed matter. The library becomes an interstitial space, a portal to secret performative events happening throughout the week, culminating in a live performance as part of Parcours Night on Saturday (Moved by the Motion, 10pm, Martinskirche; Details on page 5).
