Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture

• Main Author: Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Kuo Pao Kun; Contemporary Art
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155607
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article argues that the artistic-cultural work of the late Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) from the mid-1990s commenced on what tentatively can be called an extraterritorial theatre practice that engaged with the modern state’s capacity to make national identity singular in the interests of political,...