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What does the Ethnic Costume Represent?
(09-01-2011)
Clothes are inseparably related to our daily life. They not only protect the body, but also enable expression of one’s identity through design, color, and so on. In particular, an ethnic costume is a strong statement of ...
Radical Vernaculars: Experiments with Tradition between Politics and Performance
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation focuses on four collective projects that take “tradition” as a starting point for creative experiments in performance practice. All of these disparate projects are based in early 21st-century settler-colonial ...
The Lived Experiences of Female Chinese Canadian Artists: An Arts-Based Visual Narrative Inquiry
(2016-09-20)
Grounded in narrative inquiry and arts-based research, this qualitative study examines the complex ways in which female Chinese Canadian artists conceptualize their hybrid, transnational, and plural identities and how they ...
Of this Land, On this Land: Indigenous Artists Challenging the Racial Logics of Liberal Modernity
(2018-05-28)
This dissertation discusses the role of Indigenous artists in illustrating and denaturalizing the systems of colonial thought that continue to constrain Indigenous peoples expressions of political agency. I argue that the ...
Re-Ordering Performance: Finding Joy and Freedom in Oh, What a Lovely War!
(2015-08-28)
The following document is an exploration of pursuing ease and joy in the Theatre@York’s production of Oh, What a Lovely War. This support document gives literal meaning to the phenomenon of stage fright, defines the ...
Visualization of Ethnicity: Beyond What You See
(2015-08-28)
For my doctorate research, I am investigating discursive analyses of ethnic visibility, particularly of the hyphenated ethnic subject living in a Western society. As Rey Chow points out, becoming visible in this “post-race” ...
Prejudice in Venus Traces the Roots of Black Female Iconography
(2015-08-28)
This paper aims to verify how a ‘freak’ show performer named The Venus Hottentot of the early 1800’s in England and in France, came to symbolize the sexualized view of the black female icon today. My thesis production of ...
Nice to "Meet" You
(2015-08-28)
This paper accompanies the key manifestation of my research at York University: the solo thesis exhibition entitled, Nice to ‘Meet’ You, installed at Gales Gallery from March 30th to April 3rd, 2015. My research explores ...
Sing for Me
(2015-12-16)
"Sing For Me" is a contemplation of the notion of belonging, connecting with
heritage in the form of an inherited nostalgia, while investigating the viewpoint of
fractured diasporic identities and ethnic solidarity, and ...
Life with John
(2016-09-20)
Life with John is a 15-minute fiction film about a married couple, Peter and Elena, whose lives are disturbed when Peter's imaginary friend John comes to stay in their small apartment. Having hosted similar visitors in the ...