Invitational Performer 1997
Amanda Heng
In a performance titled S/He, Amanda Heng of Singapore deals with clashing Eastern and Western values, traditions and gender roles. On Sunday May 4 in the Colonial Arcade Ballroom Heng will use English and Chinese texts, movement, sound, objects and images to initiate the rediscovery of her identity within her culural confusion. Heng's performance is influenced by her experience as a Chinese woman whose sense of self is colored by the interwoven hierarchies of a politically sensitive Singaporean society. Amanda Heng was a founding member of the Artists' Village, the first artist-run alternative art space in Singapore.
