Casey Wei

Casey Wei was born in 1985 in Shanghai. She finished her MFA degree in SFU in 2012{{Cite web|url=https://front.bc.ca/events/casey-wei/|title=Casey Wei: Kingsgate Happenings - Western Front|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}} and made her first film Murky Colors{{Cite web|url=https://www.citr.ca/discorder/summer-2018/murky-colors/|title=Murky Colors|website=CiTR|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://capturephotofest.com/artists/casey-wei/|title=Casey Wei|website=Capture Photography Festival|language=en-CA|access-date=March 11, 2020}} In Wei’s film, she explored the relationship between family, memories and history by collaging self-shoot and appropriated footage.{{Cite web|url=https://do604.com/artists/casey-wei|title=Casey Wei|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

• Casey Wei currently works at the VIVO Media Arts Centre as Video Out Distribution and Outreach, 2020
• She is a co-founder and contributor of [https://www.vivomediaarts.com/programming/book-launch/event-pisces-midheaven-response-lenore-herb-audio-cassette-collection STILLS: moving image tract] with Steffanie Ling,

Started in film making, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.citr.ca/discorder/november-2015/art-rock/|title=art rock?|last1=November 5|first1=authorNatalie DeeillustrationAmelia GarvinphotographyLukas Engelhardt|last2=November 2015|first2=2015 Issue|website=CiTR|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}} In 2017, Casey Wei held an event called Karaoke Video Maker Free Store{{Cite web|url=https://www.citr.ca/discorder/april-2017/free-karaoke-music-video-maker-at-unitpitt/|title=Free Karaoke Music Video Maker at Unit/Pitt!|last1=April 17|first1=authorBrit BachmannVideos courtesy of Casey Wei|last2=April 2017|first2=2017 Issue|website=CiTR|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}} that provided music video making for visitors. In 2025, Wei was awarded the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize by The Polygon Gallery.{{Cite web|url=https://www.createastir.ca/articles/lind-prize-2025-the-polygon-gallery|title=Casey Wei wins the 8th Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize at The Polygon Gallery|last1=January 23, 2025}}

• Kingsgate Happenings: Kingsgate Happening is an event held by Casey Wei near Kingsgate Mall that happened across June in 2014, serving as part of the dialogue between Western Front, local artists and the Kingsgate Mall. In the event, she booked bands to perform as a response to “Go Your Own Waste”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.citr.ca/discorder/june-2014/vancouvers-waste-makers/|title=Vancouver's Waste-Makers|last1=June 2|first1=Julie Colero|last2=June 2014|first2=2014 Issue|website=CiTR|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}}  The documentation of the event reflected the Vancouver art and music scene.
• M:ST 10 Residency:{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountainstandardtime.org/project/residency-kc-wei|title=M:ST Performative Art — M:ST 10 Residency: KC Wei|website=www.mountainstandardtime.org|language=en|access-date=March 11, 2020}} This is a happening event that took place in Thailand within the M:ST 10 Performative Art Biennial. Casey Wei performed, lectured and traveled throughout Thailand from November 17 – December 14, 2019.

• Murky Colors, 2012
• Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子, 2014

• Kamikaze Nurse
• Hazy
• Late Spring{{Cite web|url=https://www.citr.ca/discorder/june-2017/late-spring-release-trembly-fog-ep-video/|title=Late Spring Release Trembly Fog EP + Video|last1=June 11|first1=AuthorsBrit Bachmann|last2=June 2017|first2=2017 Issue|website=CiTR|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}}

• Ozu's Seasons,{{Cite web|url=http://www.blankchequepress.com/product/ozu-s-seasons-casey-wei|title=Ozu's Seasons: Casey Wei|last=Press|first=Blank Cheque|website=Blank Cheque Press|access-date=March 11, 2020}} Edition of 100, Printed & bound by Colour Code, December 2017

• Screening of Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子, The Cinematheque, the Cinematheque’s DIM program, Vancouver 2014
• Karaoke Video Maker Free Store, UNIT/PITT Society for Art & Critical Awareness, Vancouver, April 2017
• Sum of the parts, Pollyanna Library, artists involved: Deanna Bowen, Felix Kalmenson, Divya Mehra, Krista Belle Stewart and Casey Wei, Vancouver 2018
• Pink noise pop up, ONE AND J. +1 (Seoul), Space One (Seoul), grunt gallery, artists involved: Jeneen Frei Njootli, Krista Belle Stewart, Ron Tran and Casey Wei, Ga Ram Kim and Yaloo, Vancouver 2018
• Casey Wei Screening at The Cinematheque,{{Cite web|url=http://polly-anna.ca/activity/casey-wei-screening|title=Casey Wei Screening at The Cinematheque|website=Pollyanna Library|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020}} The Cinematheque, Vancouver, 2018

• Art rock?, Vancouver, 2015

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Category:1985 births

Category:Simon Fraser University alumni

Category:People from Shanghai

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Category:Canadian experimental filmmakers

Category:Canadian multimedia artists

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Category:Asian-Canadian filmmakers