(Cross Media)
School of Theatre, Film and Dance
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of New South Wales
Ph: +61 2 9385 4862 _ Fax: +61 2 9662 2335
Email: y.sone@unsw.edu.au
 
2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Theatre, Film and Dance, The University of New South Wales
2003 Completed D.C.A. Course - (Doctor of Creative Arts) University of Technology, Sydney
1995 - 98 Board member of ARTSPACE, Sydney
1995 - 96 Lecturer of 'Performance', College of Fine Arts, University of N.S.W.
1994 Completed Masters Course - (Masters of Visual Arts) Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
1992 - 94 Lecture of 'Performance', Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
1986 - 87 performer in Banyu Inryoku Performance Group, Tokyo.
1985 Graduated from Meiji Uni., Tokyo. BA major in Drama study.
     
2003 ‘Australianese & Japaralians?’, Coordinator of Japan Cultural Centre Sydney 10th Anniversary Special Forum, The Power House Museum, Sydney
2002 ‘Nowhereness’, presentation at Discourse, Scots Church, Sydney.
2001-2 ‘no-(w)-here am i’, performance in FIRT/IFTR conference, The Performance Space Sydney, Time_Place_Space, Waga Waga, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
2001

‘Performance of Alterity’, presentation at 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.
‘The problematic of Intercultural Performance’, presentation at Intercultural Performance Conference, Performance Studies, The University of Sydney

2000 "The problematic of Intercultural Performance", presentation for Intercultural Performance Conference, Performance Studies, The University of Sydney
1999 "Voice of Silence", Vents5, The Performance Space , Sydney
"Performance of Alterity", presentation for Alterity Development Culture Conference, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University "Performance of Alterity", presentation for The Making of Meaning Conference, University of Technology, Sydney "Cultural mis-understanding", presentation for JETAA Pre-Departure Orientation, The Consulate of Japan "Alterity in cross-cultural performance", paper presentation for Rethinking Creative Process Conference, University of Sydney, Sancta Sophia College "The Voice of the Masked Other", photo documentation for Silver: 25th Exhibition, College of Fine Art
1998 "Guardian Angels", a group devised work and performed for Vents2, The Performance Space
1997 "Oops, Too late Complete Crime", Rootless '97, Spring Street Theatre, Hull, UK "The Voiceof The Maseked Other", The Festival of Performance Art, Symptom Hall, Toronto, Canada "Oops, Too Late.. The Complete Crime", Counter- media Event, The Performance Space "The Voice of the Masked Other", The Cleveland Performance Art Festival, The Colonial Arcade, Cleveland, USA "If a theorist can theorise performance, can't a performer perform theory?", Interzone 4, Artspace, Sydney
1996 "Long Live Performance: Translation as Performance" in Black Hair, collaborative installation, The Performance Space "Black Hair", collaborative exhibition, The Performance Space "Silence: Unhearable sound between us", Who Owns the Story, Research and Postgraduate Conference, University of Woolongong "Silence: Unhearable sound between us", Sound Check one, The Art Gallery of New South Wales "Making Out in Japan", collaboration with Janet Merewether, VIDEO BRAZIL, Sao Paulo, MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 6, Pitt Center, Sydney "This is Sound Art", SOUNDCUTURE, The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, The University of California, Berkeley, USA "Waltzing with Tigers and Dragon", a group devised work and performed for Sydney Fringe Festival 96, Bondi Pavilion "Excuse Me !", THE PALIMPSEST, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Artspace, Sydney
1995 "Learning to waltz with tigers and dragons", NEW ORIENTATIONS, a group devised work and performed for 1995 Sydney Asian Theatre Festival, Belvoir St Theatre "This is Sound Art", OPEN'95, The Performance Space "The Voice of The Masked Other", 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne "This is Sound Art", SOUND IN SPACE, Artspace, Sydney "The Voice of The Masked Other", Performance Seminar in conjunction with CANBERRA NATIONAL SCULPTURE FORUM, National Gallery, Canberra
     
2002 ‘Nowhereness: Performance of Migration’, Yuji Sone, AntiTHESIS, Vol 13, 2002, eds. Heather Merle Benbow (et al), published by Dept. of English with Cultural Studies and Creative Writing, University of Melbourne.
1998 "The 1997 Cleveland Performance Art Festival", Charles Bergengren, P-Form, No 45, summer 1998.
1997 "Silence: Unhearable Sound Between Us", Yuji Sone, Essays in Sound, No 3, 1997.
1996/97 "The Palimsest Between", Alex Selenitsch, BROAD sheet, Vol 25, No 4, Summer 1996/97
1996 "On Cultural Misunderstanding", Benjamin Genocchio, catalogue of Black Hair exhibition, September 1996, The Performance Space
"Can you hear me? What is sound art?", Nicholas Gebhardt, Real Time13, June-July 1996.
"Colouring in and rubbing out", Evelyn Juers, Art Monthly Australia, April 1996, No88.
1995 "Please, Please, Identify Me ! - Yuji Sone: Works, Texts and Commentaries", Colin Hood, Essays in Sound, No 2, 1995.
1994 "Performance Anxiety", Annemarie Jonson, Art & Text, No 49, 1994.
"Soundwatch 4", Anna Miles, Art New Zealand, spring, 1994.
"Upon Leaving The Picture Out of the Theatre", Colin Hood, Real Time, No 2, 1994.
1993 "Nonetheless TISEA", Shaun Davies and Annemarie Jonson, Photofile, Thirty-Eight, 1993.
1991 "Senses Sent Dancing", Lynn Fisher, Dance Australia, August/September, 1991.
1989 "Exploring Differences", Angela Bennie, The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, September 9, 1989.
1987 "Mono-walker Stops Traffic in Kimono", The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday, September 28, 1987.
 

I have been focusing on a mechanics of generating 'meaning', emphasising the element of defamiliarisation to create ironies, simultaneous double meanings. They investigate the spaces across/between media and culture, mining the slippages between that reveal the closures in language, perception, the body and intercultural communication. My main concern is to expose irregularities in a manner that throws into question, if not crisis, the very authority that closes fields, creates naming, categories and definitions, and maintains master narratives whether they be in art, culture, technology or ethnicity.
 
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"Voice of Silence", The Performance Space, 1999, photographed by Silversalt; "The Voice of The Masked Other", The Performance Space, 1994, photographed by Heidrun Lohr; "A Cradlesong on the Monorail", City, Sydney, 1987, photographed by SMH.