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Academic Staff: Yuji Sone

Position: Lecturer

Tel: 9850 8730

Fax: 9850 6893

Email: yuji.sone@scmp.mq.edu.au

Profile and Activities


Academic Profile

Yuji is a performance practitioner-researcher who has produced numerous mediatised performance works. His academic research focuses on the cross-disciplinary conditions of mediated performance and the terms that may be appropriate for analysing such work, especially from cross-cultural perspectives such as Japanese culture and performance. Yuji was previously a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of New South Wales.

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Scholarly Activities

Publications

Book Chapters

'Internalising digital phenomena: The "performing" body at the intersection of Japanese culture and technology' in Jerry Jaffe and Henry Johnson (eds.), Performing Japan: Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity (Folkestone, Kent : Global Oriental, 2007 forthcoming).

'Cyber-Puppets, Presence and Performance. Bunraku, Intermediation and Interdisciplinarity' in Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall (eds.), The Ends of the 60s: Perfromance, Media and Contemporary Culture (Sydney: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW and Performance Paradigm, 2006).

Refereed articles

'Sensory otherness in Laurie Anderson's work', BST (Body, Space, Technology), Vol. 5 (2005).

'East Meets West: Bunraku, Intermediation, and Australian Institutional Conceptions of Interdisciplinarity', Performance Paradigm, Vol. 1 (2005).

Journal editing

SCAN: e-Performance, Strategies and Analysis, Vol. 4, No, 1 (2007, forthcoming), published by the Media Department, Macquarie University

New Voices: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Australia-Japan Relationship, Vol. 1 (2006), published by The Japan Foundation, Sydney.

Non-refereed articles

'Terrible twins: art & the academy', RealTime No. 68 (2005): 8.

'digital allsorts: Abstracting cultural identity', Diversity: Arts in a Multicultural Australia (2004).

'Nowhereness: Performance of Migration', AntiTHESIS, Vol. 13 (2002): 137-150.

'Silence: Unhearable Sound Between Us', Essays in Sound, No. 3 (1996): 54-60.

Book Reviews

Review of Alternatives: Debating Theatre Culture in the Age of Con-Fusion, Peter Eckersall, Uchino Tadashi and Moriyama Naoto (eds.) in Performance Paradigm, Vol. 2 (2006): 148-152.

Translations

'Japanese "little theatre movement" in 1960-70s', Sato Makoto, Performance Paradigm, Vol. 2 (2006): 4-7.

'Change', Fumio Nanjo in Ewen McDonald (ed.) Biennale of Sydney 2000 (Sydney: Biennale of Sydney, 2000).

 

Conference/Forum Convening

2005      e-Performance and Plug-ins: A Mediatised Performance Conference, UNSW

2003      'Australianese & Japaralians?', Japan Cultural Centre Sydney 10th Anniversary Special Forum, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Conference Papers

2006      '"Phantom" puppetry in Stelarc's work', the 2006 ADSA Conference at the University of Sydney

2005      'Internalising digital phenomena: Japanese information society and Dumb Type's art performance', e-Performance and Plug-ins: A Mediatised Performance Conference, The School of Media, Film & Theatre, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Workshop on Interactive Systems in Performance (WISP), Macquarie University
'Writing and Art Performance: A pragmatic approach in the Australian academic environment', The PARIP Conference, University of Leeds

2004      'East Meets West: Bunraku, Intermediation, and Australian Institutional Conceptions of Interdisciplinarity', Paper/Presentation for Performance Studies International (PSI): 'Perform, State, Interrogate', Singapore

2001      'Performance of Alterity', presentation for Transforming Cultures / Shifting Boundaries, the Faculty of Arts Research Concentration in Asian Identities, University of Queensland

'Representing the Cultural Other…', presentation at Trans-actions: Culture and Performance, FIRT/IFTR conference, School of Theatre, Film & Dance, The University of New South Wales

2000      'The Problematic of Intercultural Performance', Intercultural Performance Conference, Department of Performance Studies, The University of Sydney

1999      'Performance of Alterity', Alterity,/Development/Culture Conference, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University

 

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Selected Creative Arts Activities

2006      Physical Camera and Telematic Performance Workshop by Johannes Birringer, Performance Space. (Workshop organiser)

2005      'Chimera', Prospectus - projections in new media, (1/2 doz.), blank_space, Sydney. (Video exhibition)

2004      'Chimera', collaboration with Rosalind Crisp, The Io Myers Studio, UNSW, Sydney. (Performance)

2002      'no-(w)-here am i', Time_Place_Space, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth. (Performance)

2001      'no-(w)-here am i', Trans-actions: Culture and Performance, International Federation of Theatre Research conference, The Performance Space, Sydney. (Performance)

1999      'Voice of Silence', Vents5, Carnivale, The Performance Space. (Performance)

1998      'Guardian Angels', a group-devised work performed for Vents2, Carnivale, The Performance Space. (Performance)

1997      'Oops, Too Late Complete Crime', Rootless, Spring Street Theatre, Hull, UK. (Performance)

'The Voice of the Masked Other', The Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canada. (Performance)

'The Voice of the Masked Other', The Cleveland Performance Art Festival, USA. (Performance)

1996      'This is Sound Art', Soundculture, The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, The University of California, Berkeley, USA. (Performance)

'Waltzing with Tigers and Dragons', Sydney Fringe Festival, Bondi Pavilion. (Group-devised performance)

'Excuse Me!', The Palimpsest, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Canberra School of Art, Canberra; and Artspace, Sydney. (Installation)

1995      'Learning to waltz with tigers and dragons', New Orientations, Sydney Asian Theatre Festival, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney. (Group-devised performance)

'The Voice of The Masked Other', 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. (Performance)

'The Voice of The Masked Other', Canberra National Sculpture Forum, National Gallery, Canberra. (Performance)

1994      'The Voice of The Masked Other, Part 3', 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, The Performance Space, Sydney. (Performance)

'Nonetheless Cage', Sound Watch, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand. (Performance)

1994      'The Voice of the Masked Other', Artists Week, The Adelaide Festival, Adelaide. (Performance)

1993      'The Voice of the Masked Other', Bleedlines, the Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney. (Performance)

'Produced By Art About Art', Matinaze, Domain Theatre, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (Video work)

'Fountain 1993 - A Japanese Accent', Event Space, The Performance Space, Sydney. (Performance)

1992      'Nonetheless Marinetti', Experimenta, Theatreworks, Melbourne. (Performance)

'Nonetheless Marinetti', Third International Symposium on Electronic Arts (TISEA), Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney. (Performance)

'Tourist', Festival of Sydney, Sydney. (Performed with Sydney Front Performance Company)

1991      'Nevertheless Cunningham', Fear Performance, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. (Performance)

'Nonetheless Duchamp Part 1 & 2', Contemporary Performance Week, Sidetrack Theatre, Sydney. (Performance)

'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport!', The Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. (Performance)

1990      'A Face of Woman', Experimenta, Melbourne. (Performance)

'Counting Other Numbers', Spring Dance Festival, The Edge, Sydney. (Performance)

'Diagnosis', The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (Performance)

1989      'Delirium 3 Alchemy of Numbness', The Politics of Exile Conference, The Performance Space, Sydney. (Performance)

'Story of the Tree 2', The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra. (Performance)

1988      'The Organ of Prescience', The Performance Space, Sydney. (Performance)

'The Cabinet of Curiosities 2', Above Syd's, Sydney. (Performance)

1987      'The Cabinet of Curiosities', The Gunnery, Sydney. (Performance)

'A Cradlesong on the Monorail', City, Sydney. (Performance)

1986      'Kusameikyu', Seed Hall, Tokyo. (As a member of Banyu-Inryoku performance company)

1985      'Out of Man', Benisan Pit, Tokyo. (As a member of Banyu-Inryoku performance company)

'Koosho Densetsu', Amagasaki Hall, Osaka. (As a member of Banyu-Inryoku performance company)

'Sabaku No Doobutsuen', Kichijoji Cinema, Tokyo. (As a member of Banyu-Inryoku performance company)


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