Ming Wong' s 3-screen video installation is a revisitation of Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti's 1971 film version of Thomas Mann's 1912 novella. On opposite screens the artist performs the roles of both the ageing composer/writer Gustav von Aschenbach as well as Tadzio, the adolescent boy whose uncorrupted youth and beauty mirrors the older man's state of crisis and impending death.
Entiredly self-directed, produced and conceived whilst his presentation for the Singapore Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale was still on-going, the film was shot in several original locations of the book/film as well as against appropriated backdrops of artworks in the Venice Biennale.
The 'Adagietto' from Gustav Mahler's Symphony no.5 — the theme tune of Visconti's film — provides the soundtrack, via a flawed performance by the artist himself on piano.

This DVD contains a documentation slideshow, video excerpts (4'43), and a full video preview (16'08) of the following work:

Life and Death in Venice
3 channel video installation, 2010
2 x HD projection, colour, silent, 16'08, transferred to Blu-Ray
1 x HD video, colour, stereo sound, 12'33, transferred to DVD

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Onsite

production company/producer
Location code
CD.001524
Publication/Creation date

2011

Video format

DVD

No of copies

1

Content type

artwork documentation

Ming Wong: Life and Death in Venice
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Ming Wong: Life and Death in Venice, Ming Wong: Leben und Tod in Venedig / Vita e Morte a Venezia