{"id":1356,"date":"2015-04-15T21:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypersensitive.dk\/?page_id=1356"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:41:38","slug":"re-enacting-the-transnational-adoptee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersensitive.dk\/?page_id=1356","title":{"rendered":"Re-enacting the Transnational Adoptee (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-enacting the Transnational Adoptee<\/h1>\n

(30 minutes performance)<\/p>\n

Created by Yong Sun Gullach
\nwww.hypersensitive.dk<\/p>\n

\u201cRe-enacting the Transnational Adoptee\u201d is interested in the life capability of a body of color by investigating the adopted subjects being in the world in a performative framework. By displaying how the subject is framed and displaced within the scope of Transnational Adoption through an attempt to emancipate the adopted body, re-performing the circumstances of the process and the constant battle of the right to self-definition for the Transnational Adoptee, Yong Sun Gullach embodies the process of the transnational adoptee.<\/p>\n

Visualising the identification as adoptee in a western society and touching upon topics such as the price of a coloured body, losing name and language and the attempt to reclaim original culture through using sound, traces of language and her own body, the artist puts on display the risk of being seen as ungrateful, victimising her position and disloyal to the western culture tolerating her.<\/p>\n

The performance uses rituals, theatre and lecture elements to frame the history of transnational Adoptions, pointing at the close link to the history of western colonization and emphasising the structural suppression and injustices inherited from the past.<\/p>\n