Slanted

Category:

Hula Hoop, Contortion, Drag, Contact Juggling, Acrobatics, Handbalancing, Bottle Walking, Staff Spinning, Aerial Rope

Creative Direction, Branding, Marketing and Graphic Design

Dissemination:

2021 - Independent release and showing
2023 - ExplorAsian Festival
2023 - Telus Optik TV Asian Heritage Month Programming

About

Slanted is an experimental show/short film that blends contemporary circus, theatre and drag. It explores the PanAsian diasporic experience in Westernized countries – where we straddle identities that we did not ask for, as both model members of the community and as perilous invaders.

In 2020 and 2021, catalyzed by intersections of polarizing political rhetoric and the COVID-19 pandemic – yellow peril reared its ugly head again. By all accounts and perceptions, it was dormant, or even extinct. But we in the community have always known it never went away but rather it took on a quieter, more insidious form of xenophobia. It took mass shootings and violent hate crimes for the world to start to take notice, yet even still there are instances where yellow peril isn’t taken seriously, with rampant rhetoric that anti-Asian racism is a hoax.

In the spring of 2021, Bloomberg released a report with data indicating that "Vancouver" is the anti-Asian hate crime capital of North America. In response to this, Slanted is a celebration of who we are, an analysis of the impacts of colonization, our own intercultural struggles and the forging of our own identity within the BIPOC community.

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