Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson, Make Banana Cry, 2019/10/20
(Montreal)
FIERCE SAYS
This is a hugely generous and laugh out loud funny fashion catwalk show set within a beautiful installation by Dominique Petrin. We’re thrilled to welcome both Andrew and Stephen back to Fierce who previously presented “Fame Prayer / EATING” in 2017 and “Culture, Administration & Trembling” in 2015 respectively.
Make Banana Cry is a critical and destabilizing dance performance questioning Asian stereotypes and the transmission of cultural identity. The work confronts western perceptions of the “Asian Fantasy” in a durational parade drawing on the background of the diverse cast of Canadian artists.
As aesthetic embodiments of “Asian-ness” become more predominant in Western art and pop culture, the artists share a desire to reflect on these representations and explode the mechanisms that create these categorisations within today’s appropriative landscape.