Office As part of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artists 2018 Fellowship, Wong intends to run for public office before 2030. While doing so, she intends on performing various exaggerated campaign events, such as a debate match with a dog and public stoning by audience members during a stump speech. Wong comments on the reality of the current presidency and the dualistic nature of being a politician and a performance artist, whether that be the trained, such as the trained, codified body language. “We used to listen to politicians and laugh at comedians, now we laugh at politicians and listen to comedians.” The piece premiered as an interactive exhibit in LA Chinatown in November 2018. She lost the election for Democratic delegate of Assembly District 53 in Jan 2019, a volunteer position to represent the district at the Democratic State Convention. Wong has subsequently been elected to the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council in April 2019, a largely volunteer position that meets once a month at the local library. She intends to launch her next campaign event alongside the presidential election in February 2020. Theatre Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest In 2006, Wong received support from the Creative Capital and the National Performance Network to create "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The show explores mental health concerns among Asian American women. It ran for eight years, and it has toured nationally. It was directed by Katie Pearl. Wong Street Journal The show premiered in 2015 in San Francisco and is directed by Emily Mendelsohn. The show was developed in residency at York University in Toronto, initially focusing on "economics, the stock market, and theory." Her previous works touched upon stereotypes of Asian American women by Western society, i.e. fetishism and the model minority myth, in a satirical manner. Wong Street, in that vein, challenges the West's patronizing perception of Africa, including her own, such as the need to donate clothes. Birthed out of the mental burnout from her previous two shows, Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Cat Lady, regarding depression and loneliness respectively, and the Sisyphean task of combating online trolls, Wong decided to take a break by volunteering with a microloan organization in Northern Uganda for three weeks in Sept 2013. She draws upon that experience to present a contemporary, ethnographic perspective that contrasts previous colonial "ethnological expositions" at previous World's fairs. Throughout the