conversation | KIM YE

Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood with artist Kim Ye

December 29, 2025 by Juan Sebastian

In December 2025, Kim Ye was featured as artist and author in Theatre Journal (Volume 77, Issue 4), published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The article, titled “Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood, a Studio Visit with Kim Ye,” documents a wide-ranging conversation about Ye’s interdisciplinary performance practice and her ongoing film project, Mother-Fucker. […]

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Puerperal: A Conversation on Postpartum Aesthetics

May 25, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On June 15, 2025, artist Kim Ye will join a panel of artists and curators at Compound in Long Beach, CA, for Postpartum Aesthetics in Art and Practice, a special symposium convened by exhibiting artist Fay Ray. The day-long event will include two panel discussions exploring the visual and material language of the postpartum experience, […]

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What’s My Thesis?

January 20, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

What’s My Thesis? February 1 – March 20, 2025 Group Exhibition at The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Curated around the podcast What’s My Thesis?, hosted by Javier Proenza, the exhibition brings together artists who explore the insights they have gained through their artistic practices. Showcased in the Main Gallery, this dynamic exhibition features a […]

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CONTENT WARNING: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 2024, The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group will conduct a studio visit and artist talk with Kim Ye titled Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood, on East Asian femininity, erotic labor, and the collision of the domestic with the apocalyptic. This virtual event will take place from […]

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The Whore Gaze: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Sunday, June 2nd, 2024, from 2-5 pm, LACE Screening Room will present THE WHORE GAZE: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty, a film project curated by Elizabeth Dayton and Kim Ye at the Philosophical Research Society at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Drawing on filmmaker PJ Starr and activist Sonyka […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Asian/American Interview

December 20, 2016 by admin

This conversation is part of Lucky (Lucia) Liu’s Asian/American project in which she explores identity politics through discourse with Asian-American artists and arts administrators over food via Skype calls. Using food as a conduit for intimacy, these the one-on-one conversations took place over the fall of 2015. The project culminated in series of mediated group discussions with the […]

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