From Inner Worlds To Outer Space

By Dan Kwong. Edited by Robert Vorlicky.  Dan Kwong is a veteran performance artist, writer, teacher, and visual artist, whose recent work with the Manzanar Baseball Project has captured the attention of baseball fans and brought the Japanese American story to a new audience. This book collects his early performance scripts. Kwong's performances delve into the complexities of growing up as a working-class Chinese-Japanese-American male in L.A., land of Hollywood and Disney. Kwong's remarkable performances, a potent array of multimedia effects and athletic physicalization, investigate questions of identity and the intersecting effects of race, culture, class, gender, and sexuality. From Inner Worlds to Outer Space brings together Kwong's scripts with illuminating commentary by critic Robert Vorlicky. The book includes interviews that reveal Kwong's personal and artistic influences, his evolution as an artist, and his philosophical and technical approach to art-making. Paper: 280 pp.