Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

The Greenhouse Project at UCSC

June 4, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Sunday, June 4th, 2023 at 3 PM, Kim Ye will be giving a performative lecture at The Greenhouse Project on food, fertility, and border control through an analysis of the typical Costco shopper: a 39 y/o Asian American married woman who has a 4-degree or higher level of education, and makes over $125k/year. […]

Categories: 2023, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Center for Agroecology, Center for Agroecology at UCSC, conversation, Costco shopper analysis, Dav Bell, Kim Ye, L Gilbert, Performance, Performative Lecture, Santa Cruz, The Greenhouse Project, UCSC, UCSC Art, University of California at Santa Cruz

DOMestication screening at The Roxie

May 18, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

DOMestication is a film created by Kim Ye, directed by Maegan La Trese Philmore, and edited by Jessica Schilling. Inspired by the genre of bridal reality television, this piece chronicles Ye’s wedding to her partner through interviews with the artist, and her friends and family. In tracing the roots of Ye’s reluctance to wed, […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: DOMestication, Film, Jessica Schiling, Kim Ye, Maegan La Trese Philmore, San Francisco Bay Area, Sex Workers Film & Arts Festival, Wedding

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Labor

May 13, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

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 […]

Categories: 2023, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, Residency • Tags: Alan Nakagawa, Alejandra Herrera Silva with Trinidad McMurry Herrera, Alex Sloane, Amelia Charter, Artzenkraft, Haleigh Nickerson, installation, KChung Radio residency, Kim Zumfe, Llano del Rio Collective, Los Angeles contemporary art, Los Angeles Labor Union, MOCA, Nicholas Phillips, performance art, publications

Vibrant Cities Art Grant Award

May 13, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

In June 2023, Kim Ye was awarded a grant from Vibrant Cities Art Grant. This financial support will provide Kim Ye with the means to engage in whatever artistic endeavors they wish to pursue, to research and develop ideas, embark on projects, and complete projects already underway. The Vibrant Cities Arts Grant 2023 is designed […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: Arts Development Fee Program, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Vibrant Cities Art Grant

Asian Arts Initiative Residency

April 7, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Digital Diasporas, founded by yáo collaborative in 2021, is a distributed, remote residency that gives artists the space to research, cultivate their practice, and convene across borders. Digital Diasporas is a spacious opportunity for artists to do deep thinking and form cross-border connections without the pressure of producing a final product. The final selections for the […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, Residency • Tags: Asian Arts Initiative, Beau Lai, Digital Diasporas residency, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Winnie Cheung, yáo collaborative

Matrilineal Ambivalences

December 8, 2022 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Matrilineal Ambivalences is a new performance by Multi-disciplinary artists and performers Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye that continues their series of collaborative performances Rites of Matrilineal Dissent (2015 – ongoing). Kwak and Ye reprise their roles as “Baby Girl” and “Mommy,” enacting their dissent to harmful notions of womanhood and femininity, and emergence from […]

Categories: 2022, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: AAPI Performance Artists, Angela Washko, Asian American performance art, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Jesse Stiles, Kelly strayhorn theater, Matrilineal Ambivalences, National Endowment for the Arts, Performance artist Los Angeles, Pittsburgh performance art, Scott Andrew, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Sex Work in the Academy & the Art World

February 27, 2020 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, February 27, 2020, from 7–9 PM, Kim Ye takes part in a panel discussion at The Public School Los Angeles, a collectively-run, experimental space located in LA’s Chinatown. Sex Work in the Academy and the Art World, brings together a group of artists, sex workers, and organizers to discuss the complex overlaps between […]

Categories: 2021, conversation, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Hyperallergic, Karina Vahitova, Maya Gonzalez, Sex Work in the Academy and the Art World, Stevie Cisneros Hanley, the public school, the public school LA, Wanbli Gamache

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