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Exhibition | Free | METEOR 2025

Voice to Voice

an exhibition by Jingyi Wang (NO/CN) 

 

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Accessibility No blackout No stage smoke or scents No strobe lights Not accessible with wheelchair Seated or seating options With English text/speech

About the exhibition

Voice to Voice is an interdisciplinary art project that spans video installation, live performances, and architectural design. It explores how people tend to assess and define their self-worth based on their work. Wang undertook several trips to interview people using a specifically designed mobile interview pavilion in Norway and China. The interviews and travels were documented and is presented through the exhibition. 

 The project raises questions such as: How does our work impact our sense of self-worth? Does work still reflect a person’s merit and value? How is the value of work defined by capital and social status today in a society where utilitarianism is a dominant philosophy? How is our work and reward system deviating from an individual’s sense of value and meaning, and what alternative mindsets and practices exist? And as AI increasingly replaces human labour, how do we redefine our value as human beings outside the narrow framework of production and consumption?  

 Voice to Voice is the third part of Jingyi’s Performative Event Series: Value Trilogy. The two previous works were Post Capitalistic Auction – a performative art auction that premiered at BIT in 2018 – and JUDGE ME, a performative court trial questioning how we value artworks and the people who create them presented at METEOR 2021. 

Voice to Voice er et tverrfaglig kunstprosjekt av kunstneren og kuratoren Jingyi Wang. Prosjektet rommer alt fra videoinstallasjon og liveopptredener til arkitektonisk design, og utforsker hvordan mennesker har en tendens til å vurdere og definere sin egenverdi basert på sitt arbeid. Wang har vært på flere reiser for å intervjue mennesker ved hjelp av en spesialdesignet mobil intervjupaviljong i Norge og Kina. Intervjuene og reisene ble dokumentert, og presenteres gjennom utstillingen. 

Prosjektet stiller spørsmål som: Hvordan påvirker arbeidet vårt vår følelse av egenverdi? Gjenspeiler arbeidet hva en person har gjort seg fortjent til? Hvordan defineres verdien av arbeid gjennom kapital og sosial status i dag i et samfunn der utilitarismen er en grunnleggende filosofi? Hvordan avviker vårt arbeids- og belønningssystem fra enkeltpersoners egen følelse av verdi og mening, og hvilke alternative tankesett og praksiser finnes? Med fremveksten av AI, som tar over folks jobber på stadig flere områder, hvordan bestemmer vi vår verdi som mennesker utenfor det trange rammeverket av produksjon og forbruk? 

Voice to Voice er tredje del av Wangs Performative Event Series: Value Trilogy. De to foregående verkene var Post Capitalistic Auction – en performativ kunstauksjon med premiere på BIT i 2018 og JUDGE ME – en performativ rettssak som stilte spørsmål ved hvordan vi verdsetter kunstverk og menneskene som har skapt dem, vist på METEOR 2021. 

Voice to Voice opens with a performance in METEOR 2025, and the exhibition runs til January 2026.

Bio

Jingyi Wang is an artist and curator based in Norway and China. She studied for a Master’s degree in Performing Arts through the Erasmus Mundus programme from 2011 to 2013. Since 2014, she has worked as an independent performing artist in Norway. Using performance as a framework, her work is characterised by interdisciplinarity and community engagement. 

Her main works include the STATIC THEATER series – an original concept that composes a time flow with artworks instead of performers on stage – and Performative Event Series: Value Trilogy, in which she draws on real-life social event as references and recreates the rules to push the boundaries between reality and performance, inviting reflection on contemporary social paradigms. 

Her works have been presented by BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Bergen Kunsthall, Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen), TPAM (Yokohama), Harbourfront Center (Toronto), New Vision Festival (Hong Kong), NLGX Art Festival (Beijing) and ISPA (New York), Arsenale Nord (Venice). She has been an editorial member of TURBA – The Journal of Global Practice of Curating Live Art since 2018, winner of Arte Laguna Prize in 2024. In addition to Performing Arts, she also holds a B.A. in Advertising from Beijing University. 

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Opening hours and duration

The exhibition is open from 15 November 2025 until 18 January 2026
Galleri 3,14
Free

Mon: closed
Tues, wed, fri, sat: 12:00–17:00
Thurs: 12:00–19:00

Credits

Concept, direction, text: Jingyi Wang 
Performers: Jingyi Wang and Kjartan Andersen
Scenography, sound, light, video editing: Lars Ove Toft
Camera operators: Ziqian Zhang and Jun Zhu
Installation: Øystein Nesheim
Interview wagon: Ziqian Zhang and Jingyi Wang
Dramaturgy: Melanie Fieldseth
Production, tour management: Jingyi Wang

 

Co-production: BIT Teatergarasjen, Kunsthall 3,14 and Black Box Teater 

In collaboration with: Xin Shi Xiang (Beijing), Fei Museum (Guangzhou), SWCAC (Shenzhen) and Nan Tou Village (Shenzhen).

Supported by Art Council of Norway, Bergen Municipality, The Audio and Visual Fund.

Voice to Voice is presented in collaboration with Kunsthall 3,14.

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