Adri Wong

About:

Adri is a swivelchair intellectual with an affinity for cultural egalitarianism and a guilty predilection towards purple prose. She is hermetic in nature and adventurous in spirit – which is to say, she really likes The Internet. A Young Urban Professional by training, she prefers to squander her free waking hours taking naps in museum sculpture gardens, when she isn’t too busy gentrifying your neighborhood. As the product of dueling lineages alternately colonized by the Second Reich Germans, the Meiji-Fascist Japanese, the Imperial British, and the Red Chinese (among others), she is of the firm belief that when she is reincarnated, she will lead a passionate and violent nationalist revolution that will go horribly awry.

Latest Posts:

Hands Up Guns Out: The Music of World Town

Hands Up Guns Out: The Music of World Town

On the international musical-artistic movement of alter-globalization.

| May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Another Dispatch from Miami: Manno Charlemagne

Another Dispatch from Miami: Manno Charlemagne

On the inspiring and melancholy life in diaspora of twoubadou musician Manno Charlemagne, and the tragedy of the Haitian earthquake.

| March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Dispatch from Miami: Of Broward Detention Center & Boat People

Dispatch from Miami: Of Broward Detention Center & Boat People

Reflecting on Nam Le's "The Boat" from a Miami immigration detention center.

| March 18, 2010 | No Comments »

The New Neo Primitive

The New Neo Primitive

I’m a Caveman / Your modern ways frighten and confuse me

| March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Towards an Aesthetics of Crap: Youtube & Art @ The Other Frontier

Towards an Aesthetics of Crap: Youtube & Art @ The Other Frontier

Bastard child of video art and net art; egalitarian in its accessibility; pop in its sensibility; dadaist in its nihilistic bricolage. Youtube!

| February 13, 2010 | No Comments »

In Search of the Epistolary Album

In Search of the Epistolary Album

From Port O'Brien to Bob Dylan: a quest to find musical albums of a correspondent character.

| January 26, 2010 | No Comments »

Darger, the Devil and Daniel Johnston

Darger, the Devil and Daniel Johnston

Outsider music brings the psychologically visceral and the emotionally uncanny. A brief catalogue of our favorites.

| January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Photographobia and Gerhard Richter’s “September”

Photographobia and Gerhard Richter’s “September”

A painting challenges our fears of the photographic aura in a post-9/11 era.

| January 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Maschinenmensch: Janelle Monae’s Metropolis

Maschinenmensch: Janelle Monae’s Metropolis

Through her android alter ego, Monae stands as the avant garde flagbearer of an increasingly popular urban cyborgism.

| January 1, 2010 | No Comments »