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Kim Ye is ProMomme on No Shame Podcast

December 1, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, No Shame presents Kim Ye in a conversation about her life and work as an artist that addresses the intersection of sex work, domestic labor, motherhood. Throughout the conversation, Kim Ye and host Rebecca Woolf discuss the relationship between dominance, and submission, caretaking and autonomy, rebellion and acquiescence—all of which […]

Categories: 2024, appearances, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Apple, Artist Kim Ye, Kim Ye, Kim Ye is Promomme, Kim Ye podcast, Los Angeles Artist and Mother, No Shame, ProMomme, Rebecca Woolf, Spotify

Home LA: Venice

March 14, 2023 by Zac Chen

HomeLA produces site-specific interdisciplinary performance events in private residences. This Venice iteration takes place at the long-time canal-side home of Mark Mack and Faiza Alhassoun, and features the work of artists Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye, Emily Marchand, Jobel Medina, Flora Wiegmann & Maya Gurantz, and Stephanie Dai. This HomeLA event explores the intersection […]

Categories: 2023, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Architecture, Dance, Emily Marchand, Faiza Alhassoun, Flora Wiegmann, HomeLA, Jobel Medina, Kim Ye, Mark Mack, Matrilineal Ambivalences (in Venice), Maya Gurantz, Performance, performance art, Public and private space, Rites of Matrilineal Dissent, Site-specific performance, Stephanie Dai, venice beach, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye

Binge Watch—Excessive Eating—Performances

December 22, 2022 by Zac Chen

“Binge Watch—On Performances of Excessive Eating” is written by Lydia Horne, explores the concept of binge-watching by exploring the works of Kim Ye and Laura Ohio. The text initiates a discussion on the fascination with and discomfort around taboo topics like self-harm, domestic violence, and excessive consumption. The artist Kim Ye, who performs eating as […]

Categories: 2022, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: abjection, ASMR, binge-watching, curiosity, excessive eating, Kim Ye, Laura Ohio, Les Petites Morts, Lizzy, pancreatic cancer, performance art, pleasure, shame, voyeurism

Acts of Selfhood: Female Performance Artists

April 6, 2019 by admin

Written by Leanna Robinson If the art world is a microcosm of our society at large, then the performance stage presents a unique opportunity for artists to write or rewrite reality as they would prefer it to be. It’s undeniable that women continue to face a host of gender-specific difficulties, both in society and in […]

Categories: 2019, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: artillery, contemporary performance art, female performance art, Kayla Tange, Kim Ye, kim ye performance artist, LA female performance artists, Leanna Robinson, Paige Emery, performance art, woman artists los angeles, woman performance artists

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, […]

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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

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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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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VICE on Femmebit Triennial

December 1, 2016 by admin

Femmebit is a curated festival featuring the most current and relevant work in the field of video art and new media— uniting an all-female roster of artists working in Los Angeles. The event will include livestream broadcasts of special programs including panels and workshops, and an onsite VR exhibition with live VR-streaming. The program features a 3-day […]

Categories: 2016, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, press, screening • Tags: Alex Brown, Alex Pelly, Amanda Joy, Amanda Siegel, Ann Hirsch, Annapurna Kumar, Camella Kim, Casey Kauffmann, Claire Marie Vogel, Danielle Parsons, Dublab, Eileen Cowin, Electric Objects, Eva Aguila, Femmebit, Femmebit festival, Giselle Zatonyl, Hsin Yu Lin, Jane Chang Mi, Janna Avner, Jenny Sayaka Nono, JJ Stratford, Julie Weitz, Julieta Gil, Kate Hollenbach, Kate Parsons, Kim Ye, Kristel Brinshot, Kyttenjanae, LA new media artists, LA new media triennial, Laura Darlington, Maria Lynch, Mitra Saboury, Navel.live, new Genre festival Los Angeles, Rachel Mason, Sarah Manuwal, Sarah Zucker, Sharsten Plenge, shelley Holcomb, Suzy Poling, The Institute For New Feeling, veronique d'entremont, video art festival Los Angeles, Voidlab, Yo-Yo Lin

ABLA: In the Dungeon of Kim Ye

October 24, 2016 by admin

Photo credit: Lara Salmon The excerpt below is taken from a text written by Lara Salmon of ArtblitzLA.com Click here to experience the entire text with images in its original format. Naked except for a hood over my head, I crawl across the floor. Spiked fingernails run down my exposed back and a hand slaps my ass. “Sit,” she commands […]

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Shared Value: An Open Letter

July 30, 2016 by admin

The following open letter was published and distributed from July until September, 2016: Dear Artist, Money is slippery; it can be everything without being anything. It seeps into your life and dissipates into a smattering of goods—vanishing without any record of where it came or went. It is decidedly non-specific. Your work is specific—valuable in a way […]

Categories: 2016, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, performances, press, solo exhibition, work • Tags: Aaron Wrinkle, alternative economy, Art exchange, Artist Run space Los Angeles, Christopher Warwrinofsky, Dakota Noot, david bell, Erica Reiss, Guan Rong, Hai Minh Thi Nguyen, Heisue Chung-Mathieu, Hyperallergic, Ian Pines, JAY ERKER, Jessica Rath, Karen Archar, Kim Ye Los Angeles, Kim Ye Shared Value, Kim Ye VWC, Lara Salmon, Laub, Los Angeles Alternative Space, Los Angeles emerging artist, Martin Durazo, Matt Wardell, MEITAL YANIV, Patricia Burns, Patricio Morales, performance art, Shared Value, Soyoung Shin, Thinh Nguyen, Vanissa Conte, Visitor Welcome Center, Visitor Welcome Center Los Angeles, W Magazine art, Young Chung, Young Joon Kwok

Curate LA: The Force that is Kim Ye

June 25, 2015 by admin

Photo credit: Shelley Holcomb The excerpt below is taken from a text written by Shelley Holcomb of Curate.LA Click here to experience the entire text with images in its original format. …My first experience with Kim’s work was witnessing “Art Scene”, a collaborative performance she did with Christine Wang at an artist-run space in DTLA. The piece presented […]

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Artist conversations, artist studio visit, artist write up, curate.la, Kim Ye studio visit, Los Angeles, shelley Holcomb, Shelley Holcomb curate.la, studio visit

LA Weekly on Kim Ye at Venice 6114

January 22, 2015 by admin

Kim Ye & Barnett Cohen curated by Sergio Bromberg at Venice 6114 January 10th – February 28th, 2015 | by appointment Opening reception: January 10, 2015 | 6p-4a Beer Wednesday: February 18, 2015 | 6p-late 6114 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 You can climb into Kim Ye’s sculpture at Venice 6114, though you might not know to do so […]

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