Justin Chin

Justin Chin is a writer & performance artist. His work has been presented at PS 122 and Dixon Place, in New York; Josie's Cabaret & Juice Joint, the LAB, Center for the Arts, Artist Television Access, Luna Sea & Southern Exposure, in San Francisco; East/West Players in Los Angeles; the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Hampshire College and Loyola University.

His poetry, prose & journalism have been published in Men on Men 5 (Plume), Eros in Boystown (Crown), Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, The James White Review & The Progressive, among others. His book, "Bite Hard," has just been published by Manic D Press.

A member of the 1995 and 1996 San Francisco Poetry Slam team, his spoken word performances have wowed audiences at venues in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Boston, Portland and at New York's Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.

BORN: A SOLO PERFORMANCE by JUSTIN CHIN at SURF REALITY, 172 Allen Street, New York City SUNDAY 8/17 8 p.m. MONDAY 8/18 4 p.m. TUESDAY 8/19 10 p.m. WEDNESDAY 8/20 5:45 p.m. FRIDAY 8/22 8 p.m. SUNDAY 8/24 noon All tix are $11. For tix, please call: 1 (888) 374-6436 For general info, please call: (212) 420-8877

Featured Works: And Judas Boogied Until His Slippers Wept And Judas Boogied... explores the author's ambivalent relationship to the San Francisco gay ghetto, the standards of beauty created in the gay and straight worlds, and in gay Asian identity politics. "About as powerful as theatre can get... an intense and honest self-examination that is lacking in most gay theatre." —SF Bay Times Go, or, The Approximate Infinite Universe of Mrs. Robert Lomax Taking off from the '60s Hollywood movie "The World of Suzie Wong," Go, or, The Approximate Infinite Universe of Mrs. Robert Lomax explores the construction and maintenance of authenticity and truth in Orientalist fantasies as seen through the characters of Suzie Wong, Robert Lomax & the Thai boy he has left her for. " ...ultimately affecting." —The Village Voice Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms In Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms, the author delivers The Authentic Cultural Experience by assuming a series of archetypes, including Karaoke Bar Host, Margaret Mead on speed, psycho sex tour guide from hell, and cooking show host from Planet Pomo, putting a spin on that mysterious quality of "Asianness" and its accompanying artifacts (storytelling, myths, folktales, cooking, orientalia). Holy Spook Using the motif of appropriation from movies, music and popular culture, Holy Spook is about how we live and love in the age of loss and how our articulations of this loss are subverted by mass culture. These Nervous Days These Nervous Days describes the loss of purity in mass culture and how body and cultural identities—the construction of a racial, ethnic and sexual other—tend toward a nervous state. Using the author's lactose intolerance and the precarious nature of human blood as starting points, the author uses a series of narratives and invocations to explore the implications of immunity. Born Born is psychosomatic hellride flashback tripped-out slosh through the '80s. At a time when America is fondly looking back at the '80s packaged in retro box-sets of music, movies and saccharined memories, the author looks back at that time through the filter of teenage hormones, pre- and post-pubescent angst, and the receiving end of the capitalist export machinery. If you thought The Big '80s was horrific, imagine what it was like experiencing it in Southeast Asia. When breakdancing and moonwalking, electro-pop and stadium rock, Michael Jackson and Prince are removed from their native origins and imported to the dusky "Third World," strange results occur.

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