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I really enjoyed this conversation with multimedia performance artist, actor, and musician Perry Yung. Perry is best known as Father Jun in the HBO series Warrior and fan-favorite Ping Wu in Steven Soderberg’s Cinemax show The Knick.
He was the founder of the Asian American performance collective SLANT Performance Group and is also a traditionally trained Japanese shakuhachi flute craftsman and musician.
We discuss his passion for the arts, learning to listen, and address systemic racism in the United States.
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Discussed in this episode:
A Chat with SLANT’s Perry Yung and Rick Ebihara
About Perry Yung:
Perry Yung is a multimedia performance artist, actor, and musician who works in contemporary performance art, television, and film. He is best known as Father Jun in the HBO series Warrior and fan-favorite Ping Wu in Steven Soderberg’s Cinemax show The Knick. He was the founder of the Asian American performance collective SLANT Performance Group who created critically acclaimed theatrical performances. As a member of La Mama’s Great Jones Repertory Group, he has performed leading roles in Andrei Serban and Elizabeth Swados’ Fragments of a Greek Trilogy around the world.
Perry is also a traditionally trained Japanese shakuhachi flute craftsman and musician. He leads meditation flute making and playing workshops in Zen temples and colleges across the United States. Since 2009, he has been producing the Family Playdate Series for La Mama Theater in New York City using the shakuhachi flute to acknowledge and embrace heritage. More recently he has been integrating the traditional zen flute into film and television such as in Warrior for Cinemax/HBOmax and has been making video meditation art.
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