Image and Performance / Yang, William; Lo, Jacqueline

Yang, William; Lo, Jacqueline, «Image and Performance». About Performance; Sydney, 8, (2008), pp. 125-139,233,235

Abstract

William Yang is arguably the best known Asian Australian artist currently working in the theatre. For the past two decades, he has consistently explored issues of identity which are presented in the general form of that familiar symbol of Australian suburban life: the slide show. His theatre is a unique art form, a blend of storytelling, documentary photography, family history and social commentary. A third-generation Australian-born Chinese, Yang grew up in North Queensland, and had, by all accounts, a ‘typical’ Australian bush childhood; yet, his race and sexuality have always marked him as an outsider. As a gay Chinese man, Yang is conscious of having to work against the double negation of being both nonwhite and non-heterosexual. Theatre offers him an embodied speaking position to assert that he is both Asian and Australian

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ISSN: 13246089
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URL: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1711215834/citation/3105852499EA46C9PQ/10
Language: EN
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