Jane Jin Kaisen

In the performances Amnesia Ritual for Trans-born and
DisComfortAN(d)AlieNation – The X-Raced Trans-mut(at)ed
speak, international adoption is portrayed as a phenomenon that
arose out of the interregnum between respectively communism and free
market economy in China and between Japanese colonialism and American
militarized imperialism in South Korea. Likewise, Transmigration
(performed in Indonesia) dealt with the transition from Dutch colonial
rule to Indonesian Nation building (widely aided by the World Bank and the
IMF), which created a forced internal migration of six million
Indonesians, known as transmigrants. Informed by Victor Turners
theories on ritual process and liminality, the performances sought to
investigate how ritual serves as a collective symbolic renegotiation
or transgression of amnesia and trauma. In the performances, the
adoptee and the transmigrant become signifiers of the liminal being
who is designated to a permanent liminal position.

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