Oral History Interview with Heidi McKenzie (2014)
Files
Dublin Core
Title
Oral History Interview with Heidi McKenzie (2014)
Subject
Cultural Essentialism, Racism, Bi-racial
Description
Heidi McKenzie was the co-coordinator of the Desh Pardesh festival alongside Steve Pereira for a year and a half, beginning in 1994. She discusses in this oral history interview the notion of multiculturalism in Desh discourse, representation in the board of Desh Pardesh and her experience as a bi-racial person in the Desh environment. She touches on cultural essentialism as experienced by bi-racial people, and concludes with a discussion on difficulties of modern artists.
Creator
South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
2014-09-22
Contributor
Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Format
PDF, WAV
Language
English
Type
Sound, Text
Coverage
1990s Toronto
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URL
Citation
South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), “Oral History Interview with Heidi McKenzie (2014)
,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/items/show/831.
,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/items/show/831.