Oral History Interview with Heidi McKenzie (2014)

Oral History Interview with Heidi McKenzie (2014)

Cultural Essentialism, Racism, Bi-racial

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.

South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)

2014-09-22

Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

PDF, WAV

English

Sound, Text

1990s Toronto