Jane Wang is a composer/multi-instrumental who has, since becoming a Mobius Artist, revived her interest in art through installation art, fluxus, performance art, phone photography, videotaping with her ultra-flip cameras - a new obsession, and curating group shows. Two of her video pieces premiered at the 2009 Open Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China and her pieces have shown at Fluxhibition 3, A Book About Death (NYC), various happenings by Matthew Lee Knowles (UK) and she curated the group show The Politics of Shoes @mobius (2009).
As a composer, Jane composed and performed several solo double bass and vocal pieces for her long-time collaborator performance artist Hanne Tierney including Ms. Tierney’s Obie- award winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. Jane composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved (“Tierney and her collaborators-especially wonder-making musician Jane Wang have created a work of incandescent and unworldly beauty.” –Village Voice), and for Ms. Tierney’s Man, the Flower of All Flesh (2005 Henry Hewes Design Award nominee). In May 2008, she composed and performed music for four toy pianos for Ms. Tierney’s Das Triadische Ballet at the 8th International Great Small Works Toy Theater Festival at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY and Fall 209, My Life In a Nutshell at HERE Arts Center in NYC. Jane created music for Renita Martin’s one woman show Five Bottles In a Six Pack, performed at Theater Offensive in Boston, directed by Daniel Alexander Jones, the Cherry Lane Theater in NYC and JumpStart in San Antonio, Texas, directed by Laurie Carlos. She is currently a member of the electronic composers consortium cdzabu and her compositions were selected for the 2007 and 2009 60x60 International Mix. She created a soundscape for Jason Hendrik Hansma's video installation at The Building Show (Perth, Australia) and collaborated with Mr. Hansma on When It All Comes Into Sight at Mobius (2010). She composed and performed music for Danny Swain’s In Passing (2008), 5000 Miles to Blue (2008), Kee Chin’s All in One, Somewhere Somehow, Voost/Voots and Liz Roncka’s Rogue (2009), Inside/Out (2006) and collaborated with Nathan Andary on Interval which they performed in Boston and Washington, DC (2009) including at the Kennedy Center in 2011 and various pieces at the Living Theater and Mobius (2010). Jane is a member of the site-specific improvisational group Moving Sound (Artslink Award 2002 with core members, Grantley Smith and Liz Roncka).
She curated the Surrealestate International 4x6 Show and Wearable Art Show at Artrages 2010 and co-curated The Prostitution of Art and Signs of Our Times (exhibit, performances and ongoing online blogs for each) with fellow Mobius Artist James Ellis Coleman and The 2011 Mobius Wearable Art Show, http://mobius-wearableart2011.blogspot.com/, with James Ellis Coleman and Alison Safford.
Her sculptures knit from electrical wire have shown at Mobius, Zeroplan and The Fountain Art Fair 2011 in New York City. One of her original works will be part of the group exhibition Forest, For the Trees at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, California, Fall 2011.
She is currently developing two new compositions for collaborative projects, one with Nathan Andary, premiere October 2011 in Washington, DC, and a second (using steel percussive/stringed instruments she plans to build) with Hanne Tierney and Hannah Wasileski, premiere scheduled for Fall 2012 at HERE Arts Center in NYC.