William Yang ― Stories of Love and Death

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.

HELENA GREHAN is a Professor in the School of Arts at Murdoch University. She is the author of Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance (Peter Lang, 2001) and Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Her essays on theatre and performance studies have been published in leading national and international journals. She recently edited (with Peter Eckersall) the book We’re People Who Do Shows: Back to Back Theatre, Performance, Politics, Visibility (Performance Research Books, 2013). EDWARD SCHEER is a Professor in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW. He has written on art and aesthetics for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, documenta (13), the Biennale of Sydney and the Auckland Triennial as well as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Monthly. He is especially interested in Australian artists using performance and new media, and is the author of Scenario, a study of new work from the iCinema Project (UNSW Press/ZKM, 2011) and The Infinity Machine (Schwartz City Press, 2010) on Mike Parr.