WAZA

Who is WAZA?

WAZA is an emerging artist collective founded by Hu Ge in 2002, based in Wuhan, China. This collective is a platform for experimental new media art. From large-scale sculptural installations that incorporate photography, video, sound and new media technology to site-specific video and sound projects, this young effort is at the forefront of a new generation of local artists pushing the definition of art to a higher level. Following suit, several other artist collectives have emerged in China since WAZA's establishment, notably the electronic arts collaboration Liu Dao, founded at island6 Arts Center in the M50 Arts District in Shanghai in 2006.

WAZA has participated in international festivals including: Sonar 11th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia; Music and New media Conference at the Centre De Culture Contemporanea in Barcelona; and the 37th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam organized by WORM in the Netherlands. WAZA received first place at the Chang Zhou International Animation Festival, and participated in Creative Experimental Media-an educational program organized by the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. WAZA held solo exhibitions at Beijing Tokyo Art Projects and Arario Beijing in 2008. The piece "the Floating Chinese Musicians" has already been toured around in different cities in China including Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing, the work also travels to New York as well same year in 2010 for an exhibition at Arario Gallery supported by PS1 and MOMA.