To Lupia Summary

I chose to do a critique of Quinn’s performance of To Lumpia or to Not Lumpia?: A Counterstory of a Multicultural Racial Microaggression. This piece is about a girl and her sister bringing a Filipino dish to their school’s Multicultural Food Fair. They are very excited to share their culture’s food with their peers at school. After they set their food up, a teacher changes their name tag labeling the food “Lumpia” to “Egg Rolls” so that other people could know what it was. This upset the girls and they cry in the bathroom together. I will be analyzing Quinn’s performance as an artistic event by focusing on how aesthetic it was and his vocal and physical choices that attributed to his aesthetic. Quinn chose to set his version of this story in a workshop on multicultural microaggression. In order to do this, he sat the audience in a circle in desks and had someone (the “leader of the workshop”) ask if anyone had experienced any multicultural microaggressions. This was an effective setting because it seemed very realistic. It was realistic in that it seemed like a very appropriate place to tell this story, as well as
For Quinn’s performance, the audience seemed engaged. His performance was engaging, but not too involved where it was hard to pay attention. His piece showed conflicting cultural values; one of the girls showing pride in their culture, and the other of the teacher trying to make their food more accessible to the other students and inadvertently taking a part of their culture away from them, making it more mainstream and turning it into this culturally appropriated food item. The audience that Quinn performed this piece for was the right choice. While there are some audiences that may not have appreciated or understood why the girls would be so upset, the audience seemed to appreciate being put in the girls’