https://aprilwen.info April Wen Sat, 30 May 2026 22:43:46 +0000 https://aprilwen.info en https://aprilwen.info/Landing-Page Sat, 30 May 2026 20:45:36 +0000 April Wen https://aprilwen.info/Landing-Page <img width="1800" height="1080" width_o="1800" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b943201920069e7597224ca96f569e8abc8622e65b15fb5e06ce642684a67610/01_ANH_Animal-Dream_300DPI.png" data-mid="249432084" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b943201920069e7597224ca96f569e8abc8622e65b15fb5e06ce642684a67610/01_ANH_Animal-Dream_300DPI.png" /> https://aprilwen.info/A-Natural-History Sat, 30 May 2026 22:43:46 +0000 April Wen https://aprilwen.info/A-Natural-History <img width="1800" height="1080" width_o="1800" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b943201920069e7597224ca96f569e8abc8622e65b15fb5e06ce642684a67610/01_ANH_Animal-Dream_300DPI.png" data-mid="249432087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b943201920069e7597224ca96f569e8abc8622e65b15fb5e06ce642684a67610/01_ANH_Animal-Dream_300DPI.png" /> <img width="1800" height="1080" width_o="1800" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54ebcaca88b0574217b8f16b5eb330944b4b45d46831ce4e50092e32bde57ef2/00_ANH_ASMR_300dpi.png" data-mid="249432088" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54ebcaca88b0574217b8f16b5eb330944b4b45d46831ce4e50092e32bde57ef2/00_ANH_ASMR_300dpi.png" /> <img width="900" height="540" width_o="900" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1837dfabd0cf1288a9f5e54fe850a36e629061a4efb041d4a647230032ccb476/02_ANH_MuseumElephantRun_300DPI.png" data-mid="249432109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/1837dfabd0cf1288a9f5e54fe850a36e629061a4efb041d4a647230032ccb476/02_ANH_MuseumElephantRun_300DPI.png" /> A Natural History&nbsp; 2026 27 minutes. Video, Sound, Color.in post production &nbsp; Starring Helix Zhang and Stefani KuoWriter/Director/Producer April Wen Cinematography Ned Myerberg Production Design Starr Jiang Score Frances ChangSupported by the Gotham x Genesis House Shorts Fellowship <img width="1800" height="1080" width_o="1800" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47904b17e2b6641ad947931ae6310f87a4db54412e3671fc7903b824221e1dc3/04_ANH_Vincent-Chin_300DPI.png" data-mid="249432110" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47904b17e2b6641ad947931ae6310f87a4db54412e3671fc7903b824221e1dc3/04_ANH_Vincent-Chin_300DPI.png" /> A spectral figure visits a mourning Beatrix, shifting their avoidant tendencies into a realm of surreal confrontations. <img width="1000" height="600" width_o="1000" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4df0427e8410c08dd8827d482f48fa0cb57023f7272ff12de915793343a9ed0/07_Prairie-Goddess_300DPI.png" data-mid="249432123" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4df0427e8410c08dd8827d482f48fa0cb57023f7272ff12de915793343a9ed0/07_Prairie-Goddess_300DPI.png" /> <img width="1000" height="600" width_o="1000" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e597423596e2d3d2dc6eb8d0e78697db7c75385d4d693cd08cf37124af511449/06_ANH_Papercut-Dream_300DPI.png" data-mid="249432113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e597423596e2d3d2dc6eb8d0e78697db7c75385d4d693cd08cf37124af511449/06_ANH_Papercut-Dream_300DPI.png" /> https://aprilwen.info/Ghost-Bikes-for-Palestine Sat, 30 May 2026 20:51:05 +0000 April Wen https://aprilwen.info/Ghost-Bikes-for-Palestine <img width="1323" height="904" width_o="1323" height_o="904" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb09ef5970015fbdcd930bbbd7d7b668ddd7dcc2dde6fb0ec7c776b39129832e/Times-Square.jpg" data-mid="248931760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb09ef5970015fbdcd930bbbd7d7b668ddd7dcc2dde6fb0ec7c776b39129832e/Times-Square.jpg" /> <img width="2451" height="2333" width_o="2451" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc36798b7af2a991961f50863c52f8910b341144136130622024621a97bb82e4/times-sequare-night.jpg" data-mid="248931786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc36798b7af2a991961f50863c52f8910b341144136130622024621a97bb82e4/times-sequare-night.jpg" /> <img width="1167" height="1226" width_o="1167" height_o="1226" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7d9ff906d43a0525d83539b1989277cefbec17d95c275d54c03bb269c60ebcb/prez-house.jpg" data-mid="248932015" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7d9ff906d43a0525d83539b1989277cefbec17d95c275d54c03bb269c60ebcb/prez-house.jpg" /> <img width="1037" height="767" width_o="1037" height_o="767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b942298d9b37bf0ce58f47210489bf4a6eb4d45e61bc16ea16a15a11421b4b8/columbia-entrance.jpg" data-mid="248931759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b942298d9b37bf0ce58f47210489bf4a6eb4d45e61bc16ea16a15a11421b4b8/columbia-entrance.jpg" /> GHOST BIKES for PALESTINE (2025–ongoing) Bicycles, spray paint, metal chains, locks. Size variable. The ongoing genocide of Palestinian people is funded in large part by the U.S. government’s collection of taxes, supplied under rule of law by working U.S. citizens. New York City, as a symbol of the international within the U.S., is the site of this ongoing series of public memorials for Palestinians killed during the genocide. The memorials take the form of ghost bikes: painted white bicycles, locked in a public space, typically dedicated to cyclists where they have been struck and killed. GHOST BIKES for PALESTINE are a symbol of ongoing resistance, comprising the colors of the Palestinian flag, including those located in the wheel of the bicycles – the part that gives rise to movement. The memorials are intended as both a place of mourning and physical intervention of memory in the public cityscape, where countless U.S. citizens go about their daily lives unabated, with access to news of the genocide from primarily digital sources. &nbsp; The Ghost Bikes were placed in the city’s most heavily trafficked places – whether by pedestrian numbers or as referenced in activism for Palestine. They have so far included Prospect Park, Times Square, Columbia University, and the Soho shopping district, with a combined total of over 200,000 pedestrians encountering the Bikes each day.&nbsp;The New York City Department of Sanitation stipulates that they will not remove “ghost bikes” placed on public property as a memorial for someone who died. However, each of the Ghost Bikes for Palestine was removed between two weeks to three months after their placement. In some cases, even the pole to which the bike was affixed was also removed. The Ghost Bikes are painted and placed by the artist with the support of her extended community of New York City-based filmmakers, scholars, teachers, and community organizers.&nbsp; <img width="2850" height="3574" width_o="2850" height_o="3574" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc5ea281e918600282a8208202986dd866f25a1948921e6a1ae9c962e99814d9/soho.jpg" data-mid="248931790" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc5ea281e918600282a8208202986dd866f25a1948921e6a1ae9c962e99814d9/soho.jpg" /><img width="3922" height="3092" width_o="3922" height_o="3092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/909cee0557ed30557ac272401296bbffcd134e06d5509770a1c099151e3d2ecb/pp-wide.jpg" data-mid="248932017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/909cee0557ed30557ac272401296bbffcd134e06d5509770a1c099151e3d2ecb/pp-wide.jpg" /> https://aprilwen.info/The-Relationship-Assessment-Test Sat, 30 May 2026 22:21:34 +0000 April Wen https://aprilwen.info/The-Relationship-Assessment-Test <img width="2954" height="3688" width_o="2954" height_o="3688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40b92e256ce1091d90537fe57516b3435ba65bd021b53835df99275a3192329a/rat-cover.jpg" data-mid="248932183" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40b92e256ce1091d90537fe57516b3435ba65bd021b53835df99275a3192329a/rat-cover.jpg" /> The Relationship Assessment Rest (RAT) 2025 8.5” x 11” booklet, participatory performance Concept + Development&nbsp;April Wen Graphic Designer Cindy Hwang Performance Space&nbsp;The City Reliquary Test Proctors Starr Jiang, Em Adamo&nbsp;Contributors Anonymous Supported by The&nbsp;Social Practice Actionist Fellowship, City University of New York The Relationship Assessment Test is an original text and participatory performance that reauthors the U.S. college admissions exam, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), as an archive of people’s real-life quandaries and life experiences.&nbsp; For 100 years, the SAT has long served as a structuring mechanism for access to university education and its attendant catalysis of socioeconomic opportunities. The SAT operates as both a tenuous framework and mass ritual to assess a young person’s readiness for the next stage of their educational development. As a test, it is divisive by design, compounded by unequal access to test preparation itself. During in-person, proctored test-taking sessions, participants take the RAT individually, then in groups, when they can discuss their answers and “compete” for prizes.The RAT shows a version of life as it is: full of questions with one, some, or perhaps no right answers. <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2a154027b97df599bac5e39cf0df1691a7989c442d719e509f9c3560ad764c9/The-RAT-2025-excerpt1-.jpg" data-mid="248952477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2a154027b97df599bac5e39cf0df1691a7989c442d719e509f9c3560ad764c9/The-RAT-2025-excerpt1-.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41232d68f2c34604b9f4fa22275bed780cd8ac54907d1cb14ea21d60e46cf338/The-RAT-2025-excerpt2.jpg" data-mid="248952478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41232d68f2c34604b9f4fa22275bed780cd8ac54907d1cb14ea21d60e46cf338/The-RAT-2025-excerpt2.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11f13289437d8ffe9ec5539db46b93533ed2f846d00f5822507e1ad04ce65294/The-RAT-2025-excerpt3.jpg" data-mid="248952482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11f13289437d8ffe9ec5539db46b93533ed2f846d00f5822507e1ad04ce65294/The-RAT-2025-excerpt3.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62355f887a776cc55bc1ae2dd5a86cc26da0aabe88fbc434feaadf7b5008ef65/The-RAT-2025-excerpts-.jpg" data-mid="248952479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62355f887a776cc55bc1ae2dd5a86cc26da0aabe88fbc434feaadf7b5008ef65/The-RAT-2025-excerpts-.jpg" /> <img width="3631" height="2195" width_o="3631" height_o="2195" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55da445a78362f7eb9d46a675115cbdc1b62603f2e55b07e8b24fddd60eb1253/group-photo.jpg" data-mid="248952411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55da445a78362f7eb9d46a675115cbdc1b62603f2e55b07e8b24fddd60eb1253/group-photo.jpg" /> <img width="5696" height="3702" width_o="5696" height_o="3702" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3c2464a4e5b4707251d266d66dd990d712d19ab479aa5910fd86310df0fde63/MOT_5694.jpg" data-mid="248932315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3c2464a4e5b4707251d266d66dd990d712d19ab479aa5910fd86310df0fde63/MOT_5694.jpg" /> <img width="5275" height="3521" width_o="5275" height_o="3521" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ab57e83e340e88edbcaa5cea6606063dad76cdd9a779b9bdf12483d6d598073/MOT_5650.jpg" data-mid="248932309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ab57e83e340e88edbcaa5cea6606063dad76cdd9a779b9bdf12483d6d598073/MOT_5650.jpg" /> <img width="5275" height="3521" width_o="5275" height_o="3521" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5051b7d63a99db6d2838ac181c1b07098f003b3dba0b9247e1cba9fd4adf36d3/MOT_5701.jpg" data-mid="248932314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5051b7d63a99db6d2838ac181c1b07098f003b3dba0b9247e1cba9fd4adf36d3/MOT_5701.jpg" /> top right, bottom, and bottom left photos by Avery Savage&nbsp; https://aprilwen.info/About Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:01:07 +0000 April Wen https://aprilwen.info/About April Wen (b. 1995, New York City/Lenapehoking) is an artist and filmmaker. Their work transforms personal experiences of loss and reincarnation into invitations for collective mourning, acts of historical remembrance, and consideration for the “nature” of such rituals in a digital age. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from Brooklyn College, and a BA in Film and Media Studies from Yale University.&nbsp; Email: aprilwen.film@gmail.com