William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen

William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen
Benjamin Law, Susan Best, Rosie Hays
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Hardback
h280 x 210mm - 220pg
21 Sep 2022 AU
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9781925922134
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Accompanying a Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art exhibition of the same name, William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen explores photographer and performer William Yang' s five decades of prolific art practice. This is the first major survey exhibition and publication on the artist by a state gallery. Featuring reproductions of over 200 photographs, it traces Yang' s career from his heady early days as a social photographer in the 1970s documenting Sydney' s queer scene through to some of his well-known series addressing family ties, sexual and cultural identity, and the Australian landscape. Developed in collaboration with the artist, the publication also examines the artist' s deep connections to Queensland, including his mid-career explorations of growing up in the far north of the state. Several insightful essays that delve into the public and private realms of the artist complement Yang' s highly personal and engaging imagery. QAGOMA curator Rosie Hays provides an overview of the artist' s highly regarded career; writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law gives an account of his own experiences growing up as a gay, Chinese Australian; and Professor Susan Best discusses the artist' s engagement with shame - and his refusal to accept it - in both personal and public histories. This must-have publication for devotees of photography celebrates William Yang' s invaluable contribution to Australian art and our rich traditions of storytelling.
Rosie Hays is Associate Curator, Australian Cinematheque, QAGOMA, and curator of ' William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen' . She has curated numerous film programs for the Australian Cinematheque, including ' New Bollywood: Currents in Indian Cinema' for ' The Ninth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' (APT9) in 2018, ' This Land is Mine | This Land is Me' in 2016, and ' Let There Be Rock' in 2011. She is also a programmer for the Brisbane International Film Festival, hosted by QAGOMA (2018-20). Benjamin Law is an Australian writer and broadcaster. He' s the author of the memoir The Family Law (2010), the travel book Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), the Quarterly Essay ' Moral panic 101' (2017), and the editor of the anthology Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). Benjamin also created and co-wrote three seasons of the award-winning SBS TV series The Family Law - based on his memoir. His debut play Torch the Place will be staged by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2020. He has a PhD in creative writing and cultural studies from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Professor Susan Best is an art historian and Professor of Art Theory and Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her book Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (2011) won the Australian and New Zealand Art Association (AAANZ) prize for best book, and Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography (2016) was joint winner of the AAANZ best book prize. She is currently completing a book on body art and performance (Bloomsbury Philosophy).
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ISBN-13: 9781925922134
Published: 21 Sep 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Queensland Art Gallery
Publisher: Queensland Art Gallery
Format: Hardback
Height: 280mm
Width: 210mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 220

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