Queer Haymarket Tour was a 45-minute walking tour re-imagining the architecture, history and social life of Sydney’s Chinatown through queer performances by Asian Australian artists.
Emerging from the absence of well-documented queer voices in the precinct, live activations were curated across dance, readings and performances.
Collectively, these performances imagined a precinct which visibly celebrates queer Asian Australian communities…
…while also acknowledging the voices and ongoing custodianship of First Nations peoples in this place.
Image credits
1: Art in the Heart of Haymarket: 4A/24, 2022, Banchō Bar, Sydney. Scotty So, One Night in Chinatown 1966, 2022, performance; photo: PUSH MEDIA for 4A.
2: Art in the Heart of Haymarket: 4A/24, 2022, Haymarket, Sydney. Michael Sun, Haymarket is camp, actually, 2022, spoken word; photo: PUSH MEDIA for 4A.
3: Art in the Heart of Haymarket: 4A/24, 2022, Haymarket, Sydney. MaggZ, Webster, 2022, movement performance; photo: PUSH MEDIA for 4A.
4: Art in the Heart of Haymarket: 4A/24, 2022, Haymarket, Sydney. Jazz Money, It’s Always Been Always, 2022, live performance, performed by Dylan Goh; photo: PUSH MEDIA for 4A.
Acknowledgements
Art in the Heart of Haymarket was held at 4A's Haymarket gallery, Museum of Chinese in Australia, Haymarket and Chinatown streetscapes. This festival was proudly funded by the NSW Government through the CBDs Revitalisation Program and the City of Sydney through the Precinct Activation Grant Program.