 William Yang was born in North Queensland, his grandparents migrating from China to the Top End in the 1880s. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture at Queensland University he moved to Sydney in 1969 and worked as a freelance photographer documenting Sydney's social life which included the glamorous celebrity set and the hedonistic, sub-cultural, gay community. His first solo exhibition "Syndeyphiles" in 1977 at the Australian Centre for Photography caused a sensation because of its frank depiction of the Sydney gay and party scene.
In the mid eighties William began to explore his Chinese heritage which had hitherto been lost to him by his complete assimilation into the Australian way of life. His photographic themes expanded to include landscapes and the Chinese in Australia. During this period he made visits to China.
In 1989 he integrated his skills as a writer and a visual artist. He began to perform monologues with slide projection in the theatre. These slide shows were a form of performance theatre and have become his favourite form of showing his work. The third one, Sadness, wove together two themes: William's discovery of his Chinese heritage and the rituals of dying and death in Sydney. The piece has been extremely successful and like his more recent work has toured all over Australia and the world. He has made ten full length works in all, including China, Blood Links, Objects for Meditation and My Generation.
www.williamyang.com
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William Yang William Yang was born in North Queensland, his grandparents migrating from China to the Top End in the 1880s. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture at Queensland University he moved to Sydney in 1969 and worked as a freelance photographer documenting Sydney's social life which included the glamorous celebrity set and the hedonistic, sub-cultural, gay community.
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 Orientation, The Studio - Sydney Opera House, 23 Sept 2004
Hong Kong City Festival, 13-15 Jan 2005
Adelaide Feast Festival, 17-19 Nov 2005
It's 3am and the city snores. In the ghostly glow of a laptop, a stooped figure taps away. He's blogging (that's writing a web diary, to you cyber-
illiterates). He hopes that by biting, chewing, bubble-gumming and spitting out his day into cyberspace that somehow, somewhere, someone may care. And what a day it's been: the worst dole office in the universe, a disastrous
attempt to launch himself into the sex industry, an online three-way with a bevy of clueless Hong Kong tai tais, and a life-guru who has him walking
on white-hot coals. This morning he was singing "Why Was I Born?", but now he wants to belt out "I Believe I Can Fly". And he would...but his neighbour is a Turkish oil wrestler. Meet them all in Rick Lau's crazy new one-man show.
Accompanied by Lindsay Partridge on the piano
Written by Rick Lau and Tony Taylor
Directed by Melita Rowston
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The Story of the Yellow Feather |
By Ben Hurley
The Epoch Times, 25 September 2005
What started as an entry in a short play competition has become the Opera House's latest stage show, as actor Georgina Naidu goes live with her life-long search for identity.
In her frank and comical autobiographical show Yellow Feather, Georgina collaborates with DJ Schmidti to perform her life of searching for representation in popular culture, beginning with her childhood as a "confused four year old" from an English-Indian family in 1970s suburban Melbourne.
"Once I started to actually sit down and write it I realised that I was always searching for myself in popular culture, so there didn't seem to be any representation of what I knew as my Australian experience," Georgina told The Epoch Times.
"I never saw any families like my family or the families I mixed with. All I saw were white families."
Assuming that Australian television was a reflection of Australian society, Georgina as a four year old began to fashion herself around the American Indian character Yellow Feather in Daniel Boone, and grew up thinking Stevie Wonder was her uncle.
"Anything I saw that was vaguely familiar I would really latch onto," she says.
"The same with music. My family in the early seventies, they were obsessed with Stevie Wonder... As a really little kid they'd say, you know, we love him, and I thought he was an uncle who lived in another country, who was too busy to come and visit."
In her adult life as depicted in the play Georgina made her way through drama school and at 29 eventually landed a role in Seachange as "traditional" Indian woman Phrani before finding her place on the stage as a performer.
"I guess what I was trying to do was have a laugh about and celebrate the difficult moments in life that end up forming who we are, and directing where we would like to be... so you can have a look at it, think about it and have a laugh and then move on but be informed by all those things."
Yellow Feather is showing from September 21 to October 1 in The Studio at Sydney Opera House.
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