Category Archives: 2018

The Cave in Canadian Art

December 23, 2018 by admin

THE CAVE September 29 – December 14, 2018 Walter Phillips Gallery, Main Space Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive Banff, Alberta CANADA Organized by Acting Curator Jacqueline Bell Opening Reception Friday, September 28, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye in conversation with John Tain Saturday, September 29, […]

Categories: 2 person exhibition, 2018, collaboration, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Bann Center for Art and Creativity, Canadian art, Canadian Art Editor's Pick, Jacqueline Bell, John Tain, Kim Ye collaboration, Kim Ye video, Kim Ye Young Joon Kwak, mama and baby, Martin Astorga, Mommy and Baby, the banff center, The Cave Banff, Walter Phillips Gallery, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

The Maternal River of No Return

December 8, 2018 by admin

Commissioned by Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Center, The Maternal River of No Return is a collaborative video work by Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye that presents a fragmented storyline of a fictional family holiday. Drawing attention to the constructions of gender in an intentionally exaggerated performance of femininity, Ye plays a “mommy” […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, EVERYTHING, things, vids, work • Tags: Banff Center, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Christopher Bussey, Commissioned by Walter Phillips Gallery, Jennifer Chiasson, Jessica Whittman, Kim Ye, Kim Ye Banff, Kim Ye collaboration, Kim Ye Young Joon Kwak collaboration, Marilyn Monroe, Marvin Astorga, Maternal River of No Return, Young Joon Kwak

GLUM issue #11: Economy

November 19, 2018 by admin

Not All There featured in Girls Like Us Magazine’s issue # 11: Economy. Excerpted from GLUM: Framed as inescapable, indescribable, uncontrollable and essential, economies are everywhere. Oppressive and enabling, lucrative and undervalued, there are economies that trade our emotional labour, desires, love, fertility, time, minds, queerness, politics and clicks. There are economies that we can […]

Categories: 2018, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Amitis Motevalli, Anna Ayeroff, Arden Surdam, Bettina Atala, Claire Titelman, Emily Mast, Emmy Bright, Eva Medin, Girls like us magazine, GLUM, Hazel Haendel, Kim Ye and Meital Yaniv, Kristina Wong, marisa wiliamson, MEITAL YANIV, mothertongues, not all there, Olivia Mole, roxy farhat, Samantha Roth, Sarah Johnson, Zhala

Paul Brach Lecture Series @ CalArts

November 1, 2018 by admin

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Kim Ye Nov 15, 2018 @ 5:00 PM CalArts (F200) 24700 McBean Pkwy Valencia, CA 91355

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Lady Scumbag 2.0 + LSB Institute

October 31, 2018 by admin

Lady Scumbag 2.0 September 4 – October 6, 2018 Pomona College Chan Gallery Studio Art Hall Room #123 370 Columbia Ave. RECEPTION: September 27th | 3:00-4:30p Through public engagement, this ongoing project promotes the visibility of a new feminine archetype: the Lady Scumbag. Operating outside the normal behavior we expect from good girls, this archetype […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, solo exhibition • Tags: Ali Kheradyar, Amber McCall, Anonymous LSB, Chan Gallery, Chan Gallery Pomona College, Cole James, Donna Dolore, Emily Joyce, Fuck U Pay Us, Fuck You Pay Us, FUPU, Ilona Szwarc, Jacinto Astiazarán, Jasmine Nyende, Kim Ye, Lady Scumbag Chan Gallery, Lady Scumbag Pomona College, Laub, LSB Institute, LSB POmona College, MEITAL YANIV, Micol Hebron, Nina Sarnelle, Pomona college, Pomona College Department of Art, San Cha, Thinh Nguyen, Vanessa Conte, Vicki Syal, Xina Xurner, Xina Xurner feat. San Cha w/ Jacinto Astiazarán

Lady Scumbag

October 7, 2018 by admin

Lady Scumbag is a social project committed to giving representation to the Lady Scumbag archetype. This project exists as: 1) LadyScumbag.com and 2) Immersive participatory installations. WHO IS LADY SCUMBAG? As many folks are already aware, femmes circulating in the world face a slew of frustrating inequities simply because of the position we occupy. Harassment, […]

Categories: 2018, EVERYTHING, non-profit + fundraising, vids, work • Tags: Kim ye Lady scumbag, Lady scumbag, Lady Scumbag project, LadyScumbag, LSB, LSB indiegogo

Pill0w Talk @ The Standard

August 12, 2018 by admin

Pill0w Talk is community organizing on sex, love, and communication by Fiona @fifidunks Duncan. With giveaways from American-made pleasure product manufacturer Doc Johnson. Thursday, August 16th @ 7pm Penthouse Suite the Standard, Downtown LA 550 S. Flower Street FREE (LOVE) Last month we talked about sex, love, and the Internet with Lisa Katnic, Sean Monahan, Mandy Harris Williams and Soraya King. This month, we’re taking on the […]

Categories: 2018, appearances, conversation, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Ann Hirsch, community conversation, Damien Moreau, doc johnson, Downtown Standard hotel, Fiona Duncan, free love, Hard to read, Jaime Levy, Kim Ye, Lisa Katnic, love and the Internet, Mandy Harris Williams, pill0w talk, pillow talk, Sean Monahan, sex and the Internet, Soraya King, Standard LA, The Standard Penthouse

Young Joon Kwak + Mutant Salon: CAVERNOUS

July 20, 2018 by admin

CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon Curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar July 12-August 26, 2018 *ARTFORUM Critics Pick* LACE’s Summer Residency presents CAVERNOUS by artist Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon, a collective of queer-trans-femme-POC artists and performers and a platform for community collaborations. CAVERNOUS is a kaleidoscopic environment that queers the last bastion of manhood in the domestic […]

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Lady Scumbag at Visitor Welcome Center

May 9, 2018 by admin

LADY SCUMBAG Visitor Welcome Center 3006 W 7th St., Suite 200A Los Angeles, CA 90005 March 17 – April 21, 2018 Lady Scumbag can best be described as a counterfeit Basic Bitch. Crass, self-interested, and grimy on the inside, she puts herself first, using her well-honed—if undisguised—feminine wiles to suck the resources out of unsuspecting […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, EVERYTHING, news, solo exhibition • Tags: Kim Ye, Kim Ye Visitor Welcome Center, Lady scumbag, Lady Scumbag art, Lady Scumbag project, LSB, LSB at VWC, Visitor Welcome Center, VWC

Taken Down

April 1, 2018 by admin

In this durational performance, I hired a white cis male performer to take down the art that was exhibited in my group show. From behind the camera, my voice directs him on exactly what to do and how to do it. As I give him specific orders on how to handle each piece, I also […]

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Vocal Transplantation

March 30, 2018 by admin

Vocal Transplantation is a performance, a therapeutic exercise, and an experiment in trust. Taking the bureaucracies in which we circulate as our starting point, we point to the limits these systems impose upon our expressions of personhood. As a strategy to combat a structure that draws its power from the ability to categorize, we blur […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, work • Tags: Kim Ye, Kim Ye LACE, Kim Ye Meital Yaniv performance, LACE, LACE performance LA, live performance vocal transplantation LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles LACE, MEITAL YANIV, Meital Yaniv Kim Ye collaboration, mothertongues, mothertongues (Meital Yaniv & Kim Ye), mothertongues live performance, mothertongues Los Angeles, mothertongues performance, mothertongues performance art, Vocal Transplantation, Vocal Transplantation performance

Body | Armor @ ACRE

February 2, 2018 by admin

ACRE Projects presents body | armor New work by: Chelsea A. Flowers, Luan Joy Sherman, Marcela Torres, and Kim Ye Curated by Lauren Leving February 2 – March 4, 2018 CHICAGO – body | armor presents four artists who use their practices to rethink and expand the definition of self-care, both for themselves and for […]

Categories: 2018, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: ACRE, ACRE exhibitions, ACRE projects, and Kim Ye, Chelsea A. Flowers, Kate Bowen, Lauren Leving, Luan Joy Sherman, Marcela Torres, Take Down Performance, Taken Down

Not All There @ Human Resources

January 18, 2018 by admin

NOT ALL THERE January 16 – January 28, 2018 @ Human Resources 410 Cottage Home Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Human Resources is pleased to present Not All There, an unconventional group show that revolves around works of art by local and international artists who use humor to explore serious social and political issues. That said, none […]

Categories: 2018, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: Alejandro Medina, Amitis Motevalli, Anna Ayeroff, Arden Surdam, Bettina Atala, Cassie da Costa, Chloë Flores, Christina Simmerer, Claire Titelman, Dawn Finley, Dorothy Hoover, Emily Mast, Emmy Bright, Eva Medin, FLAX Foundation, Guesthaus Residency., Hazel Haendel, Human Resources, Human Resources LA, Kim Ye, Kristina Wong, Los Angeles Human Resources, Luke Fischbeck, MARISA WILLIAMSON, Mark Borman, MEITAL YANIV, mothertongues, mothertongues (Meital Yaniv & Kim Ye), Olivia Mole, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Roxy Farhat & Zhala, Samantha Roth and Sarah Johnson., The Feminist Library on Wheels, Write Girl