‘As a dancer, it was very clear that I was a brown person doing ‘brown person dancing’, and I was not going to have the space to do what I wanted to do. Or if I had to do it, it had to be unseen. Or relegated to a particular space reserved for my kind of person.’
Read More‘Right now I’m feeling pretty optimistic about writing and what it can do.’
Read More‘I got started the same way everyone who does comedy gets into it: a desperate craving for attention, massive ego coupled with cripplingly low self esteem.’
Read More‘I think the way Australian TV (and maybe TV in general) goes about diversity is unhealthy.’
Read More‘The best political satire is about holding ‘People In Power’ accountable. It’s about pointing out the hypocrisy of their actions.’
Read More‘I don’t actually want to spend my time making flowcharts, or only speaking/making work about race (except for when I do). I also just want to write about vampires and ass and pocket universes, you know?’
Read More‘We in the diaspora cannot stand in solidarity with Bla(c)k lives here and in the US, and claim our marginalisation as POC on this land, but simultaneously refuse to examine our own implications when the pyramid is inverted and we find ourselves at its crown.’
Read More‘So all together, [I’ve fixed] around 50,000 cameras, I suppose.’
Read More‘I think it’s important to not fall into the trap of performing for the white gaze and the white gays.’
Read More‘I’ve just always preferred observing, and keeping my distance with things.’
Read More‘The sort of grim accent-heavy stuff that often borders on self-minstrelsy… I never really liked that stuff.’
Read More‘I guess maybe there’s value in ‘being’ but I prefer ‘doing’! I’m a fire sign I make the world!’
Read More‘Collaboration is integral to my art.’
Read More‘Reclaiming what was taken from me, valuing and honouring what I know, and connecting the past to the present is a form of decolonising in my practice and my cultural inheritance for my child.’
Read More‘Anything has the potential to be a catalyst.’
Read More‘Why can't art be about eating a tin of tuna alone in front of your computer?’
Read More‘Artistically, at this moment, inspiration comes from learning. Stories told by my Mum and Dad; seeing posters that have faded over time in my Aunty’s restaurants in China; that hideously kitsch mandarin ornament tree thing in my Great Aunty’s home.’
Read More‘I see carving as drawing in space.’
Read More‘In western media, the Asian male has been desexualised, typecast, devalued and made two-dimensional. There has been a long history of this. I hope my voice can change that.’
Read More‘Yayaland is meant to be a really exaggerated, humorous but also a dark way of portraying how I use collective conflicts and anxiety.’
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