KCHUNG PUBLIC, founded in 2011, invites visitors to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA at 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 on May 13th, 2023, from 2 pm to 6 pm, to enjoy performances, installations, and publications inspired by the Los Angeles Labor Union (also founded in 2011). This program is part of KCHUNG Radio’s ongoing residency at MOCA. Patrons will be encouraged to consider the relationship between artists, art workers, and labor movements over the past 12 years. Participants include Artzenkraft, Alejandra Herrera Silva with Trinidad McMurry Herrera, Llano del Rio Collective, Alan Nakagawa, Haleigh Nickerson, Nicholas Phillips, Kim Ye, and Kim Zumpfe.
Kim Ye’s work engages gendered constructions around power, labor, and taboo by activating the artist/viewer dynamic to create situations of intimacy and exchange within a public space. Remixing appropriated forms from mainstream culture with media from personal archives, the work seeks to describe the entanglement between private spaces of desire and fantasy, and popular trends in discourse and representation.