Casey Wei (born 1985) is a Vancouver based artist working on multidisciplinary art, film and music.

Life

Casey Wei was born in 1985 in Shanghai. She finished her MFA degree in SFU in 2012 and made her first film Murky Colors which was based on her father Menjin Wei’s novel. In 2014, her video work Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子 (2014) was screened in The Cinematheque as part of the DIM cinema program. In Wei’s film, she explored the relationship between family, memories and history by collaging self-shoot and appropriated footage.

Work

Art practice

Started in film making, Casey Wei has gone on to work across disciplines such as music, art and performance. In 2015, she started the label Agony Klub which includes music and printed matter under the framework of “popularesoteric”, as a space to push the boundary between rock show and gallery. In 2017, Casey Wei held an event called Karaoke Video Maker Free Store that provided music video making for visitors.

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