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From behind the camera, he has connected with audiences around the world with his intimate photographs and observations of events and people around him.
Now Yang gets really personal. Intrigued by Facebook and the voyeurism it invites, he opens the shutter on his own life with characteristic wry humour and emotional honesty in this very engaging slideshow.
I Am A Camera sees Yang collaborating for the first time with celebrated composer Elena Kats-Chernin, whose work for live cello and percussion will drive Yang's deeply-felt narrative and remarkable images.' (Source: Sydney Festival 2012 website)
Production Details
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- World premiere Friday 13 January, 2012, Lennox Theatre.
- Produced by Performing Lines.
- Running time: 1hr 30 min.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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I Am A Camera : Julia Blake
2016
single work
biography
— Appears in: Players : Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film 2016;'Julia Blake’s interest in drama began early in her life. She says: ‘I was always as a child fascinated by character and character faces and the way people walked … at first I wanted to be an artist and I was always sketching people. I mean always, compulsively’, she told me. As a young girl Julia learned ballet and took elocution lessons. Her parents encouraged her to enjoy the arts as a child in spite of their strict views on refraining from the more hedonistic arts. Blake’s family were conservative Primitive Congregationalists. Her father Fred Blake worked as a commercial artist and Edna was a homemaker who had enjoyed a good education but frowned on women working. Julia was an excellent student and completed an honours degree in drama and French at Bristol University, the only university in the UK that offered drama at that time. Blake’s first significant role was playing Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera in her final year of university. Blake recalls that this experience ‘changed things for me, in that I thought I can do this… And I knew that I was obsessive and passionate about it’.' (Introduction)
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Moments of Remarkable Beauty Captured by Yang's Lens
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 January 2012; (p. 10)
— Review of I Am a Camera 2012 single work drama -
Music and Light Capture a Dark Past
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 January 2012; (p. 15) William Yang hangs his latest image-based performance on a ‘historic peg’ that came from a bus trip to Young, writes Joyce Morgan.
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Moments of Remarkable Beauty Captured by Yang's Lens
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 January 2012; (p. 10)
— Review of I Am a Camera 2012 single work drama -
Music and Light Capture a Dark Past
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 January 2012; (p. 15) William Yang hangs his latest image-based performance on a ‘historic peg’ that came from a bus trip to Young, writes Joyce Morgan. -
I Am A Camera : Julia Blake
2016
single work
biography
— Appears in: Players : Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film 2016;'Julia Blake’s interest in drama began early in her life. She says: ‘I was always as a child fascinated by character and character faces and the way people walked … at first I wanted to be an artist and I was always sketching people. I mean always, compulsively’, she told me. As a young girl Julia learned ballet and took elocution lessons. Her parents encouraged her to enjoy the arts as a child in spite of their strict views on refraining from the more hedonistic arts. Blake’s family were conservative Primitive Congregationalists. Her father Fred Blake worked as a commercial artist and Edna was a homemaker who had enjoyed a good education but frowned on women working. Julia was an excellent student and completed an honours degree in drama and French at Bristol University, the only university in the UK that offered drama at that time. Blake’s first significant role was playing Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera in her final year of university. Blake recalls that this experience ‘changed things for me, in that I thought I can do this… And I knew that I was obsessive and passionate about it’.' (Introduction)
