Performance Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday
Big Head is Denise Uyehara's latest work which links the memory of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans with the present-day treatment of those suspected of being "the enemy". This interdisciplinary performance is inspired by letters her great uncle composed in 1942 on his twentieth birthday while incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas, and takes a look at the violation of individual civil liberties in recent times. A montage of image, clay animation, poetic narrative and movement. Big Head evokes the mysteriously winding path of collective memory, and how individuals interpret their past to provide hope for the future.