Category Archives: 2017

Casually Destroying the Patriarchy

December 20, 2017 by admin

Video excerpt of performance at Satellite Art Fair, Miami FL [December 7, 2017] Durational performance that involves chipping away at a giant wall of ice with stiletto heels. Performance ends when ice wall/artist’s outfit is destroyed. Excerpt from performance statement: A wall of ice is just a glass ceiling tipped on its side. I will […]

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Satellite Art Fair | MIAMI BEACH

December 6, 2017 by admin

ROCHAMBEAU is a performance with Kim Ye + Martin Durazo that involves actions against a giant wall of ice. As an annex to the artists’ booth at Satellite Art Show, this durational happening–which is presented by Claudia Huiza and produced in part by Diane Allen–will occur twice during Miami Art Week: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7th @ Satellite Art Fair | Starting @ 2, continues until failure. SATELLITE BOOTH #216 7410 […]

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Videos Screening at Mana BSMT | Jersey City

September 10, 2017 by admin

Mana BSMT is pleased to present the second iteration of Mana Contemporary Chicago’s inaugural Body + Camera Festival, an annual event featuring films, installations, and live performances that explore the intersection between the body and the moving image. The festival at Mana BSMT will include highlights from Chicago’s presentation, as well as new work by BSMT artists-in-residence […]

Categories: 2017, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: ALEX MYUNG, Amber Bemak & Nadia Granados, Body + Camera Festival, César Vayssié & Boris Charmatz, CLAUDIA HART, ELISABETH HOGEMAN, Farah Al Sharie, GARY ZHEXI ZHANG, Ghada Da, GILI AVISSAR, Glamhag, HENRY GWIAZDA, Hilla Ben Ari, J. MAKARY, JAN BRUGGER, JOCELYN COTTENCIN, LIZ MCCARTHY, LOONG WAH, MADSEN MINAX, Mana Body and Film Festival, MANA BSMT, Mana Contemporary, MAURICIO SAENZ, Molly Hewitt, mothertongues, Nidal Morra, Nikki Kynard, Sam Cannon, Sofia Pancucci-McQueen & Anouska Samms, THE ERA, WILLS GLASSPIEGEL, Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye

7 Minutes in Hell

August 28, 2017 by admin

Part photo shoot, part therapy session, 7 Minutes in Hell is a performance that invites viewers to lock themselves into a small confined space with me. As potential participants enter into the field of the performance, they are asked to fill out an intake form. From the stack of completed forms, one is selected at random and the […]

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mothertongues screening @ FVAF #3

August 25, 2017 by admin

The Femmes’ Video Art Festival is curated from an open call for female-identified video artists to submit works made in the last 3 years. The objective of the festival is to explore and celebrate the issues, themes, and artistic styles that are being addressed by female-identified artists today. The themes of the curatorial selections emerge […]

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7 Minutes in Hell | a LUNAR PERFORMANCE

August 6, 2017 by admin

Sartre says hell is other people, but Freud insists that’s just a projection. Performance goes so deep these days that we forget that we sit in the audience of our own life-show. We cross paths in the closet, elevator, booth, gloryhole, dark alley, transient half-formed space, and I become your audience of one–acting as your […]

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Maybe All of Us at Once

July 10, 2017 by admin

For the 24 hours preceding the public event, 12 artists-writers will be gathered together inside LACA writing new original pieces. Please come to hear and witness our unprocessed and unrehearsed words. Organized by Meital Yaniv + Kim Zumpfe. READING EVENT: Sunday, July 30 | 4:00-6:30pm at LACA (Los Angeles Contemporary Archive) 709 N Hill St #104-8 […]

Categories: 2017, appearances, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Carol Cheh, Charisse Pearlina Weston, D. Hill, JAY ERKER, Kim Ye, Kim Zumpfe, LACA, Lara Salmon, Laub, Los Angeles Contemporary Archives, Los Angeles reading, marbles, Matt Savitsky, Minty, reading event Los Angeles

ACRE Residency

June 22, 2017 by admin

ACRE is proud to formally announce its 2017 residents and visiting artists! ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is an artist-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes models designed to help artists develop, present, and […]

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AMWA film series 01 screens Ultimate Match

June 14, 2017 by admin

AMWA Film Series 01 presents films centered around pan-asian futurity that imagines our post-colonial bodies as complete subjects — dynamic and infinite are presented. Included in the program is Ultimate Match by Kim Ye: Ultimate Match (video component) 60-second commercial spot In collaboration with Jeff Jenkins What kind of politics do our desires betray? Do they flatten societal hierarchies or […]

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Femme Gaze Fotobooth

May 28, 2017 by admin

The Femme Gaze Fotobooth takes place in an art space, and uses the traditional party photo booth as its starting point. However, instead of participants styling and posing themselves–with the various props, costume elements, and accessories provided–here, they are positioned and photographed according to where their figures and my desires overlap. Offering up their body as […]

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Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities

May 10, 2017 by admin

The foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face of our identity, the space that wrecks our abode, the time in which understanding and affinity founder. The ‘foreigner’ then is something hidden in ourselves, something with the potential to destroy ‘home’ and something that is beyond ‘understanding’ or relations with each other. —Strangers to […]

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MANA Contemporary Body + Film Festival

May 10, 2017 by admin

Mana Contemporary Chicago, in Partnership with Chicago Dancemakers Forum and Montom Arts AnnouncesProgramming for First Annual Mana Contemporary Body + Camera Festival: May 20 & 21, 2017. The festival will feature over 40+ short films by emerging and established artists from around the world, that explore the intersection between the body and the moving image. The […]

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PSA [Self-Brainwash Meditation #404]

April 28, 2017 by admin

mothertongues is Meital Yaniv & Kim Ye. Through collaboration, mothertongues creates a sphere of authorization to exercise communal frustrations, aspirations and fears using our bodies as objects of resistance. Like jazz musicians, we employ a call and response technique to augment one another’s intuitive decisions in the performing, filming, and editing process. Tears, laughter, joy, […]

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Latex and Performance With Artist Kim Ye

March 12, 2017 by admin

The excerpt below is taken from a conversation between Charlie Xie of ArtZealous and Kim Ye. Click here to experience the entire text with images in its original format. Kim Ye is an LA-based artist with frankly an astounding volume of work. Ranging from sculpture to videos, paintings to live performances – she pushes at […]

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Where I am My Own Other, Where My Mother is Me

February 20, 2017 by admin

Where I am My Own Other, Where My Mother is Me, collaboration w/Young Joon Kwak, 2017. Duration: 15 minutes, 3 seconds. Videography: Abigail Collins, Jacinto Astiazarán; Sounds: Jeepneys & Whiteboy Scream, Corazon Del Sol & Barbara T. Smith, Marvin Astorga; [Dog Rock] sculpture: Corazon Del Sol. Contains footage from Mutant Salon’s Festival De Las Muertas […]

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