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ProMomme: a sex worker’s guide to parenting

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Edition of 300 August 2024, English, 8 x 11 in, 72 pages, color, softcover ORDER FROM (and Co-published by) Sming Sming + Cash Machine What do erotic labor and child rearing have in common? How do these (normally unpaid) private practices inform one another? ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting is a poetic, honest, and practical […]

Categories: 2024, collaboration, EVERYTHING, publication, things, work • Tags: California Arts Council, Carmen of Angeles, Cash Machine, Emme Witt-Edenn, Frenchie, GabyG., Honey De Vil, Julia SH, Kim Ye, Lorde Destroyer, Lucy Khan, Mari V, Maxine Holloway, Piggy Lu, Princess Marx, Sming Sming Books, SWOPLA, Yin Q

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 […]

Categories: 2022, EVERYTHING, performances, things, vids, work • Tags: Chinese American artist, Chinese american performance art, Kim Ye, Kim Ye artist, kim Ye Chinese American artist, Kim Ye Los Angeles, Kim Ye performance, la art core, la art core performance, Los Angeles performance art

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

7 Minutes in Hell

August 28, 2017 by admin

Part photo shoot, part therapy session, 7 Minutes in Hell is a performance that invites viewers to lock themselves into a small confined space with me. As potential participants enter into the field of the performance, they are asked to fill out an intake form. From the stack of completed forms, one is selected at random and the […]

Categories: 2017, EVERYTHING, performances, things, work • Tags: 7 Minutes in Hell Kim Ye, Elevator Monday, Elevator Monday Los Angeles, Elevator Monday Lunar Performances, Kim Ye Elevator Monday, Kim Ye LA, Kim Ye Los Angeles, Kim Ye Lunar Performance, Kim Ye Performance LA

Femme Gaze Fotobooth

May 28, 2017 by admin

The Femme Gaze Fotobooth takes place in an art space, and uses the traditional party photo booth as its starting point. However, instead of participants styling and posing themselves–with the various props, costume elements, and accessories provided–here, they are positioned and photographed according to where their figures and my desires overlap. Offering up their body as […]

Categories: 2017, EVERYTHING, performances, things, work • Tags: artist photo booth, female gaze, femme gaze, femme gaze fotobooth, Hammer Museum, Kim Ye, Kim Ye Female Gaze, Kim Ye Hammer Museum, Kim Ye photo booth, kim ye photography, los angeles photography, party fotobooth, performative photography, portraiture