Amy Mihyang Ginther

Amy Ginther currently is a professor of Theater Arts at UCSC. Ginther is currently focusing on the relationship between voice, identity and power structures within actor training environments while incorporating and re-contextualizing interdisciplinary topics such as critical pedagogy, critical race theory, sociolinguistics, accents, adoption studies, postcolonial theory, Shakespeare, standard language ideology, EFL, speech, singing, poetry, and intercultural theatre. Her edited volume, Dynamic Bodies, Emerging Voices: Racializing and Decolonizing Actor Training, is due early 2021with Routledge. 

ARI Supported Project:

Mountains after Mountains is a Virtual Reality (VR) experience designed for Oculus headset. It centers the account of my illegal abortion in South Korea in 2013. The text is part sung (Korean children’s song) and part spoken (rhymed iambic pentameter verse). The 10-12 minute experience incorporates animated and live action elements filmed in volumetric video. Guided events and actions invite guests’ interactive agency to navigate the 3D immersive space, compelling them to negotiate their roles as witness and as a more complicit participant within systems of reproductive injustice.