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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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6 Sex Worker Books for your Reading List

May 14, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On May 13th, 2025, Kim Ye’s publication ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting was featured in Tryst’s curated list of essential sex worker-authored books. The article, titled “6 Sex Worker Books for Your Reading List,” celebrates recent literary contributions by sex workers that challenge stigma and center lived experience. ProMomme is an anthology curated […]

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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 […]

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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

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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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 […]

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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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