William Yang

Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney’s theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of ‘belonging’ in multicultural Australia.

In this groundbreaking book, featuring 100 images from William Yang’s personal archive, Helena Grehan and Edward Scheer explore Yang’s self-portraiture across photography, performance and documentary. William Yang: Stories of love and death considers the ways in which Yang’s constantly evolving art captures the enduring power of family, friendship and connection.

About the Author

Helena Grehan teaches in English and Creative Arts at Murdoch University. She is the author of Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance (PeterLang, 2001) and Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and most recently ‘We’re People Who Do Shows’, Back to Back Theatre: Performance, Politics, Visibility (co-edited with Peter Eckersall, Performance Research Books, 2013). She writes essays on performance and technology, art and politics and spectatorship and ethics.

She is currently working with Associate Professor Peter Eckersall and Professor Ed Scheer on an ARC Discovery project on New Media Dramaturgy. She is co-editor of Performance Paradigm.