Excerpts from UNFORGETTABLE GIRL | Elisabeth Gunawan

In this excerpt from her performance Unforgettable Girl, Elisabeth Gunawan challenges the white supremacist structures within our culture that comfortably laughs at East Asian stereotypes, while responding with discomfort at white stereotypes, and invites a reckoning and reflection with white privilege in real time. Unforgettable Girl confronts how bodies of colour are subjected to imaginative violences and denied subjectivity, while transforming the anger at those systems into a life-affirming reclamation through a blasphemous, grostesque and sensual performance.

BIO:Elisabeth Gunawan 吳金栵 is a Chinese-Indonesian artist who works in the mode of stories, poetry and performance. A critically-acclaimed and award-winning theatremaker and actor, her work explores the places we all go (but when we go, we go alone) and frequently returns to territories of exile, loneliness and Otherness. She wrote and performed Unforgettable Girl, which had its world premiere at Edinburgh Fringe 2023 at Pleasance as one of the winners of the…