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Denise Uyehara
Big Head (2003)
Los Angeles/Tuscon based interdisciplinary performance artist, writer,
and playwright Denise Uyehara performs her evening-length solo work
that revisits the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War
II and considers current-day treatment of those perceived as "the
enemy now," including Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, and
South Asian Americans. This poetic, non-linear montage of images,
clay animation, movement, and text responds to recent hate crimes
and imprisonments and considers the coalition-building between various
communities during times of crisis.
A performance of recollected self [turns]
into one of a collective self, which might be described as the collage
of a responsive U.S. citizen during times of crisis -Theater
Journal
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