Wu Wenguang
WU Wenguang’s CV
Wu was born in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was send to the countryside where he worked as a farmer for year, and as an elementary school teacher for three years. Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. After Wu got his Bachelor’s degree, he went on to teach at a junior high school for three years. In 1985, he started working in television as a journalist for three years. Wu left television, moving to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of dance performance group Living Dance Studio.
Documentary films:
Bumming in Beijing: the Last Dreamers (1990), 1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993), At Home in the World (1995), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), Diary: Snow, 21 Nov,1998 (1999), Dance with Farm Workers (2001), Search for Hamlet (2002), You are Called Outlander (2003), Fuck Cinema (2005),
Books:
The Scene of the Revolution, 1966 (1994)
Bumming in Beijing (1995)
Report on Jiang Hu ( 2001)
A Camera likes own eyes (2001)
Document (as the editor-in-chief, three volumes, published from 2000 to 2005 )
Activities:
co-founded the independent art monthly magazine Next Wave, 2001.
curator of Chinese contemporary art event Public Space & Personal Eyes: New Vision from China, in Kampnagel, Hamburg, in October, 2003.
curator of Video Forum: Documentary-Private Language and Performance Space in Dashanzi International Art Festival in Beijing, 2005.
co-founded the independent art space Caochangdi Workstation with Wen Hui, 2005.
curator of Performance Festival Crossing, 2005.
curator of May Art Festival, Caochangdi Workstation, 2006.
curator of the China Village Documentary Project, 2005.