Elijah Kuan Wong: Saliva, Larynx, Pharynx, Tongue, Lips and Jaws, Breath, Guitar, Vocals, Piano, B3 Organ, all productions
Influences
Queens. The Working Class. Hyphenation. Frank Chin. Angela Davis. Survivalism.
Grandmother Kuan. Kara Walker. The Medicine Wheel.
Nas.
The Aurora Borealis.
Yemaja.
Julia Kristeva.
No-No Boys.
Prometheus.
Guan Gong.
Guan Yin.
Lao Tzu.
Cross-Pollination.
Ganesha.
Haile Sellassie I.
Sounds Like
The Pacific Graffiti of Angel Island come alive.
The Dialogue-Songs of the Central Pacific Railroads.
The Stream-of-Consciousness one hears when being cuffed by the po-po in Queens.
"I have found that there are no diamonds to be discovered in the amerikan excavation - only semi-precious trauma"
- Elijah Kuan Wong
"Can the subaltern speak?"
-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Representing Queens, NYC since the first trimester, Elijah Kuan Wong graduated from the historic Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in Ethnic Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, and Asian American Studies. Elijah Kuan Wong focuses on the resurrection of Amerika's chorus of ancestral voices. Writing and performing since 14, his mission in music has been further crystallizing with every passing day - a mission to hunt down the sites where Amerika's true power trafficks, entering those energetic currency hot-spots, and disrupting the flow of power in this Top-Down Prison-state system to which we salute.
Elijah's music combines chant, prayer, song, oration, spit, meditation, and slam poetry together: a convergence of histories and emancipation theory.
Elijah Kuan Wong is the first recipient of the Robert L. Zimmermann Scholarship. The Robert L. Zimmerman Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate entering the third or fourth year of study who demonstrates financial need as well as a high probability of academic success. Preference is given to students who are concentrating in philosophy, which was Zimmerman’s area of scholarship.
In 2005-2006, he conducted ethnographic research on the ghettoized ethnic community's memory that culminated into a paper entitled, "Who Remembers Vincent Chin?". Spending a semester walking through NYC's historic Chinatown, Elijah interviewed guerilla-style a large cross-section of residents, numerous shopkeepers, pedestrians, buddhist nuns, community activists, old-timers, new immigrants, and youth. Positioning Vincent Chin as a point of departure, Elijah began to unearth deep material connections between the post-9/11 police presence/occupation of Chinatown and the ramifications of the coerced de-politicization of Asian-America: a de-politicization that typically gets misread as an apolitical-ness. It is wherein trauma, terrorism, and neo-colonialism meet that most of all draws Elijah into The Modern Amerikan Civil War.
Elijah also debuted his experimental performance "The Re-Womb-Ing" in December 2007 at Sarah Lawrence College. Part group meditation, part seance, part American history re-visited, "The Re-Womb-Ing" sought to affect a radical re-claiming of lost metaphorical limbs in the ideal of psycho-spiritual healing.
On May 1st 2008, he debuted "Ballistics" an avant-garde spoken word performance based in part on Deleuze's philosophies of The Cut, at Sarah Lawrence College. "Ballistics" criss-crosses again and again the beginnings of The United States with the Sean Bell shooting, killing, and verdict.
On May 16th 2008, Elijah staged the follow-up to his project, "The Re-Womb-Ing" with his latest multimedia project, "Reconstruction: Angel Island". Taking note that perhaps the former was premature in even suggesting that one can be reborn innocently into this White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal (1st) world, Elijah Kuan Wong knew that if there was a re-birthing there would have to be a re-haunting. Using a laptop, a mobile projector, a stereo boom box, and prints of the original Chinese graffiti poetry carved into the walls, the West Coast's historic Angel Island (where thousands of early Chinese workers were detained for years) opened up its static murmurs to a post-millennium post-9/11 world.
He also won the Nuyorican's slam on 3/26/08 and 3/28/08,
and is a 2008 Nuyorican semi-finalist.
Elijah is currently curating the new "Witchdoctors and Assassins" reading/open mic series at the Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW.org) in NYC.
He has had the chance to philosophize with, perform for, or share stage with:
Alanis Morissette
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ishle Yi Park
Sonia Sanchez
Carlos Andres Gomez
Amiri Baraka
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Ciara Miller
Saul Williams
Aja-Monet
Margot Malia
FM Supreme
Jyroscope
Oveous Maximus
Komozi Woodard
Brenda Stokely
Una Chung
Performed at:
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Asian American Writers' Workshop
The Bowery Poetry Club
Silk Road Cafe
Bar 13
Sister's Uptown Bookstore
Water Street Lounge
New World Stages
Hairitage Lounge
Downtown Uptown Cafe
SUNY Purchase
Sarah Lawrence College
City College of New York
New York University
Emory University
Hunter College
Philippine Forum
The Afrikan Poetry Theatre
Brooklyn Borough Hall
Rikers Island
In the spring of 2008 he also recorded the score for the short film "Roundtrips", by independent fil-am filmmaker Emmelle Israel. "Roundtrips" explores the inner voyages of thought, expectation, and waiting that surrounds any trip as monumental as one that takes you back "home" - a home that may be yearned, a home that may be fiction.
Elijah Kuan Wong is an experimental performance artist who understands that in order for the revolution to finally come there must be full commitment towards a bare-knuckle consciousness-raising brawl from the depths of Amerika's Id.
For booking info send an email to:
ElijahKuanWong@gmail.com, with "Booking" in the subject.
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Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
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WORD! I wonder what they're argument was. I mean, I'm starting to understand that everyone has their own significant relationships. Jay-Z and Beyonce's relationship seems competitive. Both are competing to be the baddest. Jay does so in his hypermasculine disguise and Beyonce does hers in her ultra feminine mask. Nas and Kelis have a relationship built off of conversation. Both are sexy people who feed off of each other's energy but who are also interested in delving deeper into issues. I know with my relationships, I just want to be crazy with my lover and have deep conversations while deconstructing ignorance in the media. That's the ultimate joy for C.D. Miller. How are you my love! Hopefully well! We shall chat soon!
words wearing mind-medicine-meditational-movement... bad-azz-Bruce-Lee (o)bliterating borders and bombing dem from somewhere behind dems enemy-lines of de-mark-asian... become(ing) wildstyle weapons wielded by warriors with names (like Wong) dat dem can't/won't pronounce/renounce and often refuse to announce!!!!
Continue palante! I + eye is feeling what youre doing, Elijah/compa/hermano!
WCCR, being blessed with the many genres of music played at City College's radio station, will be having a live DJ providing the music.
Spoke~N~Heard, the poetry club which is also having a food drive coming up later in the month, will mesmerize us with their eloquent word play.
And last, but not least, the Students Association of International Studies (SAIS) will be providing the food.
All it will cost you is a few hours of your time. Please don't be shy and bring a friend!
You can take.... 1 train to 137th-City College ~OR~ A, B, C, D to 145th and walk from 145th uphill to Convent Ave and then downtown toward 137th st. ~OR~ 2 4, 5, 6 train to 125th st and then take M100/M101 to the west side. Get off at 135th and Amsterdam Ave.
Enter the North Academic Center (NAC) on either Amsterdam Ave. or Convent Ave. between 136th & 137th st. The Hoffman Lounge, where the event is being held, is located on the first floor near the lobby and ballroom.
Reverberation (Jam Session): The Explosive Sounds of Afro Latino & Caribbean Rhythms....presented by Adeola Entertainment.
Featuring DJ Laylo w/ Mah B and Wordsmith Jones hosting at La Pregunta Arts Cafe (1528 Amsterdam Avenue btwn 135th & 136th st.; 1 train to 137th-City College) on Saturday, October 25th. www. lapregunta. net
As said by the CEO of Adeola, "[This event is] the stepping stone for unsigned artists who perform Caribbean, Central & South American music.”
However, we invite various types of entertainers of any ethnic background to bless the mic! So if you're a poet/spoken word artist, dancer, comedian, DJ, musician, etc. and you're interested in attending or performing, email reverberationnyc@yahoo.com
For only $3 w/ a valid college id and $5 without, what do you have to lose?
E-regular FLOW hosted by Mah'B is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month featuring Rebelstarr (www. myspace. com/rebelstarr) & Charan P. on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th @ La Pregunta Art Cafe (1528 Amsterdam Avenue) at 7pm. Admission is $5. (Take 1 train to 137th St.)
w/ the MAIN EVENT @ Hacienda Bar & Lounge (40 C b/t 3rd and 4th St.). In case you miss out at La Pregunta, Rebelstarr & Charan P will be performing again @ Hacienda. We will be having special guests from The Source Magazine and CheckMate Ent. Monday, September 29th. Expect giveaways.
E-regular FLOW hosted by Mah'B is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month featuring Rebelstarr (www. myspace. com/rebelstarr) & Charan P. on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th @ La Pregunta Art Cafe (1528 Amsterdam Avenue) at 7pm. Admission is $5. (Take 1 train to 137th St.)
w/ the MAIN EVENT @ Hacienda Bar & Lounge (40 C b/t 3rd and 4th St.). In case you miss out at La Pregunta, Rebelstarr & Charan P will be performing again @ Hacienda. We will be having special guests from The Source Magazine and CheckMate Ent. Monday, September 29th. Expect giveaways.
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