Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Perfomances of Denise Uyehara

Escobar, Dario (Editor)/ Escobar, Dario/ Yew, Chay (Foreward By)

ISBN 10: 188503038X / ISBN 13: 9781885030382

Published by Kaya Production, 2004

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180 pages. 6.75x7.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Perfomances of Denise Uyehara
• Publisher: Kaya Production
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188503038X
• ISBN 13: 9781885030382
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.28 kilograms

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Synopsis

Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara presents the complete texts of "Big Head" and "Maps of City and Body," two of Uyehara's most acclaimed shows. In "Big Head," Uyehara questions the logic of political and personal rhetoric by exploring the relationship between Japanese American internment camps and post-September 11th racial violence. Maps of City and Body takes on subjects ranging from the trails left behind by childhood kisses to the reimagining of a grandmother's fiery suicide, to explore how memories mark our bodies. In both works, Uyehara remains unflinchingly attentive to the transformative details that give our lives shape. This selection of Uyehara's performance pieces has been designed to function as both experience and documentation. It includes images from her performances, as well as detailed stage directions. It also includes detailed descriptions of Uyehara's other public art investigations, as well as a conversation with dancer/scholar Yutian Wong, a chronology of readings and stagings, and a bibliography. Maps of City and Body is the first in a series of books from Kaya Press on Asian diasporic performance artists.

About the Author

Denise Uyehara is a performance artist, writer, and playwright whose work has been presented across the United States and in London, Tokyo, Helsinki, Vancouver, and Hairou, China. A founding member of the Sacred Naked Nature Girls, she is the recipient of a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship and recently served as the poet and writer in residence at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Beyond Baroque Literary Center. She is currently the resident artist at 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica, CA, and a guest instructor in performance and writing at the University of California at Irvine.