Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara

Author: Denise Uyehara

Publisher: Kaya Press (2004)

Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara presents the complete texts of “Big Head” and “Maps of City and Body,” two of Uyehara’s most acclaimed shows. In both works, Uyehara remains unflinchingly attentive to the transformative details that give our lives shape.

This selection of Uyehara’s performance pieces has been designed to function as both experience and documentation. It includes images from her performances, as well as detailed stage directions. It also includes detailed descriptions of Uyehara’s other public art investigations, as well as a conversation with dancer/scholar Yutian Wong, a chronology of readings and stagings, and a bibliography.