Sail Boat Home 내 집은 어디인가 (“Where is My Home?”)
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Research Statement
Research Background
Scholarship on Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) has under-examined how participatory frameworks rely on dominant linguistic norms, marginalising culturally and linguistically diverse children. Building on the authors’ long-running Korean–Australian transcultural practice, Sail Boat Home (SBH) asks: can dramaturgical code-switching, the simultaneous layering of language, spatial design, objects, sound and embodied performance, activate a Third Space (Bhabha, 1994) in TYA that supports intercultural belonging through participation that is invited rather than required? Developed across two public seasons, it is practice-led research within Park Younghee’s QUT PhD.
Research Contribution
Across the two seasons of SBH (AWESOME Festival, 2024; QUT Z9, 2025), the work develops dramaturgical code-switching as a TYA method, extending the arc of Neideck et al. (2022) in ADS. The research tested a methodological transfer from queer adult performance to children and families, treating the sensory environment (boat-form, objects, p’ansori sound, bilingual address) as the dramaturgy. Season 2 deepened the installation-scale set, added digital scenography, and treated the encounter with industry presenters as a site of dramaturgical address. The research proposes that intercultural belonging is generated through ‘affective transactions’ (Thompson, 2009) rather than scripted participation.
Research Significance
Season 1 was presented at AWESOME Arts Festival, Perth (2024), funded by the Australia–Korea Foundation with WAAPA in-kind support, playing to an audience of 80. Season 2 ran two days at QUT Z9 Studio, Brisbane (2025), a children-and-families day and a presenter showing, funded by Creative Australia with QUT in-kind support, playing to an audience of 100. Stage Whispers found the work ‘vibrant but gentle’, noting it ‘kept its participants fully involved throughout’.
Keywords
theatre for young audiences, TYA, participatory theatre, intercultural theatre, transcultural performance, dramaturgy, dramaturgical code-switching, intercultural belonging, bilingual performance, Korean-Australian collaboration, children's theatre, family audiences, performance studies, creative practice research, sensory dramaturgy, audience participation, Third Space, cultural diversity, multilingual performance, p'ansori, digital scenography, immersive theatre, inclusive performance, community engagement, arts education, participatory arts, affect theory, installation performance
Non-Traditional Research Output
Live Performance
Document Type
Non-Traditional Research Output
Date of Publication
2026
Publisher
Company Bad. Auspicious Arts / AWESOME Arts
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
RAS ID
100035
Event Venue
State Library of Western Australia, Perth (Season 1); QUT Z9 Studio, Brisbane (Season 2)
Duration
35 mins
Recommended Citation
Park, Y., Neideck, J., Stoneham, N., McKeague, M., Lorenz-Daniel, H., & Hsu, M. (2026). Sail Boat Home 내 집은 어디인가 (“Where is My Home?”) [Play]. https://doi.org/10.25958/bghv-1204
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