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About the Founder

Jingyi Wang is an artist, live art practitioner, director, and system designer whose work turns performance into a way of testing value systems in public.

Jingyi Wang

Jingyi Wang is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, director, and mechanism builder born in Beijing, China, who has long lived and worked between Norway and China.

Her practice constructs performative systems for testing how value is produced, exchanged, judged, narrated, and legitimized beyond market price. Rather than treating performance as representation alone, she uses it as a live framework for organising time, space, roles, rules, evidence, listening, exchange, conflict, commitment, and decision-making.

Education

Wang holds a B.A. in Advertising from Peking University, an M.A. in Global Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an Erasmus Mundus Master in Performing Arts from Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of Copenhagen, and Université de Nice.

This background across communication, media, advertising, and performing arts informs her long-term interest in how value is produced, framed, performed, circulated, and legitimized.

Works and Institutional Development

Her major recent works include Post Capitalistic Auction, JUDGE ME, Voice to Voice, and The Butterfly Entangled Effect. Together, Post Capitalistic Auction, JUDGE ME, and Voice to Voice form the Value Trilogy, a long-term inquiry into how value is exchanged, judged, internalized, narrated, and institutionally performed.

Post Capitalistic Auction has developed through editions in Bergen, Yokohama, Toronto, and Hong Kong. Voice to Voice, developed between 2022 and 2026, builds listening spaces from field interviews on work, dignity, and self-worth. JUDGE ME stages a courtroom trial around artistic value, self-judgment, and public legitimacy. The Butterfly Entangled Effect extends the question of value into ecological systems, dormant life, AI-mediated environments, and multi-agent conflict.

Wang is the founder and director of New Value Institute. She is also developing institutional and protocol-based prototypes growing out of Post Capitalistic Auction, including Post Capitalistic Art Award and Post Capitalistic Protocol.

Method

Wang's method combines artistic research, live art, social situation design, field interviews, participatory dramaturgy, institutional critique, and mechanism design.

She often begins from an existing social form, such as an auction, trial, interview, award, protocol, listening booth, public program, or environmental system, then alters its rules so that hidden value assumptions become visible. These works generate not only performances or installations, but also methods, protocols, research questions, and institutional prototypes.

Awards and Recognition

JUDGE ME was selected for ISPA's 2023 New Works program and received the Arte Laguna Prize in 2024.

Wang's projects have received long-term support from Arts Council Norway, as well as support from Bergen Municipality, Fritt Ord, the Fund for Sound and Image, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Norwegian Consulate in Shanghai, and other cultural bodies. Her works have been presented at Bergen Kunsthall, BIT Teatergarasjen / Meteor Festival, Black Box teater, TPAM Yokohama, Harbourfront Centre Toronto, Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival at Hong Kong City Hall, Kunsthall 3.14, Studio USF, and Penghao Theatre.

She serves on the editorial board of TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation. Her work has been featured in Nikkei, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift, South China Morning Post, and The Mainichi.

New Value Institute

New Value Institute grows directly from Wang's artistic practice. It gives long-term institutional form to the methods generated through her works, allowing them to become research, theory, protocols, collaborations, public experiments, case studies, archives, publications, toolkits, and future value structures.