An exploration of identity and storytelling within the Asian Australian context

Hong Kong-born multidisciplinary artist Nicky Tsz Tung Li is the inaugural recipient of the Fringe MakeSpace Residency. Her residency focuses on the development of a self-produced experimental one-woman theatre piece, Signal: A Theatrical Mixtape. Signal draws on Nicky’s personal stories — including her relationship to the anti-extradition law amendment bill movement in Hong Kong, and her self-identity — and will be shaped by collaboration with musicians Samuel Lau and Zhao Liang, designer Eleana Willmott, dramaturg Lauren Fraser and mentor/directorial advisor Valerie Berry.

The Fringe MakeSpace Residency has been developed in partnership with Adelaide Fringe, supported by the Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund. It is open to people of colour, First Nations or queer folks. The residency offers full creative freedom to develop a new or existing performing arts work to be shared during the Adelaide Fringe Festival.