On Saturday, June 13, join us at Wave Farm for Teresa Time, a performance and Art Park activation by artist-in-residence Camille Wong. At 12 p.m., Wong will present a lecture-performance at the Wave Farm Study Center. At 1 p.m., audience members will grab radio receivers and explore the Wave Farm grounds to experience a multi-frequency micro-broadcast installation.

Teresa Time explores pirate radio as a method of resistance, focusing on the illegal shortwave broadcasts transmitted from Taiwan into mainland China during the 80s. At the center of this conflict was the beloved Taiwanese pop singer, Teresa Teng, whose voice became the symbol of the Broadcast Wars, enticing Chinese listeners to defect to Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted to maintain strict control of the incoming media by banning, jamming, and disrupting the radio stations. Listeners in China resisted by adjusting the frequencies and recording live broadcasts onto cassette tapes.

Using micro FM-transmitters embedded throughout Wave Farm's grounds, Wong simulates the broadcasts of the Voice of Free China by transmitting “yellow” music at Wave Farm. Evoking James C. Scott’s concept of “peasant resistance,” listeners follow a set of instructions to hack and locate the frequencies of the broadcast.

Camille Wong (they/she) is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, CA. Their practice examines power, geopolitics, and historiography through the lens of media and spectacle. Often performing in their films as both the filmmaker and subject, they challenge ideas of authorship, subjectivity, and the politicized body. Their recent work studies media, technologies, and rhetoric during the Cold War to understand its role in shaping cultural identities, global ideologies, and mass migration. They received their MFA in Media Art at UCLA and dual BAs in Art and Environmental Studies from UCSB.