EVERYTHING | KIM YE

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 […]

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FAIL SAFE: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh

November 5, 2022 by admin

FAIL SAFE: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh Friday & Saturday, November 11 – 12, 2022 8:00pm with ASL Interpretation Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave. Pay What Moves You: $15 – $35 BUY TICKETS HERE! Fail-Safe is a recurring variety performance show which brings together artists exploring performance across disciplines to present new experimental projects in […]

Categories: 2022, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Angela Washko, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, Caroline Yoo, FAIL-safe, Fail-Safe and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh, Formosa (Jellyfish), Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Goofy Toof, Jesse Stiles, Kelly strayhorn theater, London Williams, Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak, MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clarke-Verdery, Rites of Matrilineal Dissent, Samira Mendoza and Davine Byon, Scott Andrew, Swampwalk, The National Endowment for the Arts, Xina Xurner, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Thank You for Your Service

November 4, 2022 by admin

Thank You for Your Service utilizes the form of a military funeral to bury the placenta from the artist’s pregnancy. The script for the eulogy appropriates medical journalists’ descriptions of placental growth as “military invasion”. Through speech, song, and movement, attendees are guided through the enactment of burial rites usually reserved for members of the […]

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Frieze Seoul 2022

August 25, 2022 by admin

Curated by two international art non-profits, GYOPO (Los Angeles) and WESS (Seoul), Frieze Film at Frieze Seoul 2022 will span two locations near Gyeongbokgung Palace, Together Together and Magjib. Titled I Am My Own Other, this program of ten films explores the effects of technology on the ideation of self; the framing of nationhood; societal conformity; and gender and […]

Categories: 2022, art fairs, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, screening • Tags: art film south korea, Donghyun and Sea Jung Kwon, film festival, Frieze film, Frieze Seoul 2022, GYOPO, I Am My Own Other, Jaye Rhee, Jeamin Cha, Jisoo Chung, korean diaspora, LaRisssa Rogers, Magjib, Minki Hong, Nikki S. Lee, Seo Young Chang, Seoul contemporary art, Together Together, WESS, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye, 업체 eobchae

Dear Mother,

July 31, 2022 by admin

Dear Mother, Organized by Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo LA Artcore August 4- August 21, 2022 August 13th, 2022 @ 6-8PM: Poetry Reading by Julayne Lee and Thank You for Your Service by Kim Ye An adoptee searching for her birth mother. A daughter trying to converse with her immigrant mother. A journey […]

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Good Verbal

May 18, 2022 by admin

The teacher/the mistress, the Madonna/the whore: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, or Miranda. How does the divided feminine activate male lives, and where can we find representations of wholeness? In Good Verbal (the divided feminine talks back) the artist remixes excerpts from Joey Soloway’s 2016 TIFF keynote with lines from Cruel Intentions (1999), emails from academic administrators, […]

Categories: 2022, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: BDSM, breast milk, cis male narratives, coerced bi, cruel intentions, female domination, female gaze, FemDom, forced bi, forced femme, Good verbal, hand expression, HR LA, Human Resources, human resources Los Angeles, joey soloway, Kim Ye, Kim Ye performance art, Los Angeles performance art, madonna whore complex, male gaze, male submissives, objectification, performance documentation, sex work, slut shaming, the divided feminine, the female gaze, the male gaze, video documentation

We are the Beginner (录音机)

July 8, 2021 by admin

The video blends two sets of voices: The first is that of a mother and baby recorded in Beijing in 1986 that is from a series of audio tapes made to be sent abroad to the recently immigrated father. The second set of voices is from a conversation between a father and his adult daughter […]

Categories: 2021, EVERYTHING, vids, work • Tags: Chinese Amerian artist Los Angeles, Chinese American artist, Chinese diaspora, found audio, immigrant, Kim Ye Los Angeles, Kim Ye video, Kim Ye video art, LA Asian American art, mandarin video art, video art found audio

DOMestication

June 22, 2021 by admin

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, this […]

Categories: 2021, EVERYTHING, vids, work • Tags: AAPI documentary, Asian American filmmaker, Asian American short film, documentary, documentary film, Jessica Schilling, Kim Ye documentary, kim ye short film, Maegan La Trese Philmore, reality show, short film

Lamma House

May 1, 2021 by admin

LAMMAHOUSE is a group exhibition curated by Erin Morrison and Evan Trine. The show includes 14 international artists presented virtually and physically in a two story residential space overlooking Hung Shing Ye beach on Lamma Island in Hong Kong. Special thanks to Michael Young for providing site access for this project. The exhibition can be […]

Categories: 2021, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: Erin Morrison, Evan Trine, Fay Ray, Galia Linn, hong kong contemporary art, Katy Cowan, Kim Ye, Lamma House, Leila McMillan, Meike Legler and Kottie Paloma, Nicolas Shake, online exhibition, Rebecca Morris, site specific installation, Sophie Tianxin Chen, Stephanie Teng, The Contemporary Art Digest, TheCAD, Thomas Linder, Tommy Kha, Trulee Hall

Tall, Dark, and Handsome

March 20, 2020 by admin

In a performance that resembles a stream of consciousness love letter monologue, Kim Ye splices together topics ranging from paraphilia, to climate change, and BDSM to animism in exploring the sensuality of the human/object relationship. Weaving together found and original text with quotes from Jane Bennett, Baruch Spinoza, Michel Foucault, and WJT Mitchell, the artist […]

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