Stephen Kwok
Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate live performance, digital technology, sculpture, and text. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation's Performance as Process program in London. He has exhibited his work at the Seoul Museum of Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. Through Recreational Meetings, Kwok develops experiential online events designed to utilize virtual engagement platforms as a tool for embodied experience and creative agency. Held on commonplace platforms such as Zoom, FaceTime, and Google Drive, each Recreational Meeting is created with a creative practitioner from a diverse field. Meetings hybridize platform-specific protocol, performance art strategies, and their collaborator's practice, producing interactive, artist-led experiences for audiences to inhabit remotely. Recreational Meetings are not simulations of in-person events. Rather, they explore what is made possible by an expansion in remote technology, uncovering new opportunities for creativity and social connection within them.