About the Founder

Wang holds a B.A. in Advertising from Peking University, an M.A. in Global Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an Erasmus Mundus Master in Performing Arts from Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of Copenhagen, and Université de Nice.

This professional background in communication, media, advertising, and performing arts informs her long-term interest in how value is produced, framed, performed, circulated, and legitimized.

Her major recent works include Post Capitalistic Auction, JUDGE ME, Voice to Voice, and The Butterfly Entangled Effect. Together, Post Capitalistic Auction, JUDGE ME, and Voice to Voice form the Value Trilogy, a long-term inquiry into how value is exchanged, judged, internalized, narrated, and institutionally performed.

Post Capitalistic Auction has developed through editions in Bergen, Yokohama, Toronto, and Hong Kong. Voice to Voice, developed between 2022 and 2026, builds listening spaces from field interviews on work, dignity, and self-worth. JUDGE ME stages a courtroom trial around artistic value, self-judgment, and public legitimacy. The Butterfly Entangled Effect extends the question of value into ecological systems, dormant life, AI-mediated environments, and multi-agent conflict.

Wang initiated New Value Institute from the questions, cases, and methodological foundations developed through her artistic practice. The Post Capitalistic Art Award and Post Capitalistic Protocol are current research initiatives in development.

Wang's method combines artistic research, live art, social situation design, field interviews, participatory dramaturgy, institutional critique, and mechanism research.

She often begins from an existing social form, such as an auction, trial, interview, listening booth, public program, or environmental system, then alters its rules so that latent value relations can become perceptible. Selected structural relations may later be articulated as mechanism or protocol hypotheses that require further testing.

JUDGE ME was selected for ISPA's 2023 New Works program and received the Arte Laguna Prize in 2024.

Wang's projects have received long-term support from Arts Council Norway, as well as support from Bergen Municipality, Fritt Ord, the Fund for Sound and Image, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Norwegian Consulate in Shanghai, and other cultural bodies. Her works have been presented at Bergen Kunsthall, BIT Teatergarasjen / Meteor Festival, Black Box teater, TPAM Yokohama, Harbourfront Centre Toronto, Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival at Hong Kong City Hall, Kunsthall 3.14, Studio USF, and Penghao Theatre.

She serves on the editorial board of TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation. Her work has been featured in Nikkei, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift, South China Morning Post, and The Mainichi.

Wang’s practice provided the initial questions, cases, and methodological foundations from which NVI emerged. As the institute develops, this founding corpus becomes one source within a wider collaborative research environment open to other practices, disciplines, communities, and institutional contexts.