Category Archives: vids

A Costco Shopper Analysis

July 8, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Inspired by the genres of stand-up comedy and the academic lecture, A Costco Shopper Analysis is a 50-minute performance in which the artist traverses the topics of food, fertility, and border control. According to Business Insider, the typical Costco shopper is a 39 y/o Asian American married woman who has a 4-year degree or higher […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: Business INsider, Costco, Costco Art, Food Fertility and Border Control, Greenhouse Project UCSC, Institutional critique Kim Ye, KCHUNG, Kim Ye performance art, Kim Ye Performance LA, Kim Ye performance Santa Cruz, MOCA Geffen, Performance art Los Angeles, Santa Cruz performance art, The Greenhouse Project, UCSC, University of Santa Cruz art

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 […]

Categories: 2022, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: AAPI Performance Artists, Angela Washko, Asian American performance art, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Jesse Stiles, Kelly strayhorn theater, Matrilineal Ambivalences, National Endowment for the Arts, Performance artist Los Angeles, Pittsburgh performance art, Scott Andrew, Young Joon Kwak, 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 […]

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

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

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 […]

Categories: 2019, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: contemporary performance art, Ecology of the edge, Human Resources, Human Resources LA, Kim Ye, Kim Ye artist, Kim Ye LA, Kim Ye performance art, kim ye performance artist, LA performance artist, Los Angeles, Performance art LA, performance artist

Church of Art

July 31, 2019 by admin

Using the framing of organized spiritual practice, Church of Art is a performance that falls somewhere between a self-help seminar and institutional critique. Combining diagrams and references culled from Pierre Bourdieu and Oprah Winfrey with middle school classrooms pedagogical techniques, Veronique d’Entremont, Kim Ye, and Laub cultivate a space that engages diverse audiences in self-reflection and […]

Categories: 2019, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: church of art, Human Resources, Human Resources LA, Kim Ye, Kim Ye performance art, Kim Ye Veronique d'Entremont church of art, Laub, Performance art Los Angeles, veronique d'entremont

Motherhood

March 29, 2019 by admin

Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye promenade down a small–town sidewalk in flowing pastel robes and lingerie. They feed each other ramen with seductive and messy fervor. They wrestle provocatively, thick makeup smearing down their faces. These vignettes weave in and out of each other, a fractured narrative filmed in 2018 in the idylls of Banff, Canada. The dreamlike three–channel film serves as the […]

Categories: 2019, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: and Kim Ye, CCA, CCA Wattis Institute, Diamond Stingily, Diamond Stingily's Doing the Best I Can, Doing the Best I Can, Kim Ye, Kim Ye and Young Joon Kwak, Kim Ye Motherhood, Kim Ye Motherhood performance, Kim Ye performance art, LA performance artists, Miraclegrow, Motherhood performance, performance art, Rosha Yaghmai, Rosha Yaghmai's Miraclegrow, San Francisco performance art, the watt, The wattis institute, Wattis Institute, Young Joon Kwak

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

Lady Scumbag

October 7, 2018 by admin

Lady Scumbag is a social project committed to giving representation to the Lady Scumbag archetype. This project exists as: 1) LadyScumbag.com and 2) Immersive participatory installations. WHO IS LADY SCUMBAG? As many folks are already aware, femmes circulating in the world face a slew of frustrating inequities simply because of the position we occupy. Harassment, […]

Categories: 2018, EVERYTHING, non-profit + fundraising, vids, work • Tags: Kim ye Lady scumbag, Lady scumbag, Lady Scumbag project, LadyScumbag, LSB, LSB indiegogo

Taken Down

April 1, 2018 by admin

In this durational performance, I hired a white cis male performer to take down the art that was exhibited in my group show. From behind the camera, my voice directs him on exactly what to do and how to do it. As I give him specific orders on how to handle each piece, I also […]

Categories: 2018, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: ACRE, ACRE performance, Kim Ye ACRE, Kim Ye ACRE Taken Down, Kim Ye performance ACRE, Kim Ye performance chicago, Kim Ye video, Kim Ye video art, Lauren Leving, Taken Down, Taken Down ACRE, Taken down Kim Ye

Casually Destroying the Patriarchy

December 20, 2017 by admin

Video excerpt of performance at Satellite Art Fair, Miami FL [December 7, 2017] Durational performance that involves chipping away at a giant wall of ice with stiletto heels. Performance ends when ice wall/artist’s outfit is destroyed. Excerpt from performance statement: A wall of ice is just a glass ceiling tipped on its side. I will […]

Categories: 2017, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: ACE Hotel LA, Casually Destroying the Patriarchy, Ice Wall performance, Ice Wall performance art Kim Ye, Kim Ye, Kim Ye LA, Kim Ye performance, Kim Ye performance art, Kim Ye Satellite art fair, LA Ace hotel, Los Angeles performance art, Satellite art fair performance, Satellite performance

PSA [Self-Brainwash Meditation #404]

April 28, 2017 by admin

mothertongues is Meital Yaniv & Kim Ye. Through collaboration, mothertongues creates a sphere of authorization to exercise communal frustrations, aspirations and fears using our bodies as objects of resistance. Like jazz musicians, we employ a call and response technique to augment one another’s intuitive decisions in the performing, filming, and editing process. Tears, laughter, joy, […]

Categories: 2017, EVERYTHING, Uncategorized, vids, work • Tags: feminist art, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Los Angeles feminist art, meditation, MEITAL YANIV, mothertonuges, PSA, rape fantasies, rape PSA, self-brainwash, single channel video, video art

Where I am My Own Other, Where My Mother is Me

February 20, 2017 by admin

Where I am My Own Other, Where My Mother is Me, collaboration w/Young Joon Kwak, 2017. Duration: 15 minutes, 3 seconds. Videography: Abigail Collins, Jacinto Astiazarán; Sounds: Jeepneys & Whiteboy Scream, Corazon Del Sol & Barbara T. Smith, Marvin Astorga; [Dog Rock] sculpture: Corazon Del Sol. Contains footage from Mutant Salon’s Festival De Las Muertas […]

Categories: 2017, event or performance, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: Abigail Collins, barnstall art park, Corazon Del Sol, Corazon Del Sol & Barbara T. Smith, David Evans Frantz, Festival de las muertas, Hammer Museum, Jacinto Astiazarán, Jeepneys & Whiteboy Scream, Kim Ye, LAMAG, Los angeles municipal art gallery, Marvin Astorga, Mutant Salon, where i am my own other where my mother is me, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Untitled (Owl Experiment #101)

February 2, 2017 by admin

Categories: 2017, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: collaboration, collaborative video performance, DIY sexuality, Kim Ye, Los Angeles video art, MEITAL YANIV, Meital Yaniv and Kim Ye, mothertongues

Art Scene II

April 6, 2016 by admin

Art Scene II, performance with Christine Wang, 2016. Duration: 23 minutes

Categories: 2016, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: Art Scene 2, Art Scene II Christine Wang Kim Ye, Biquini Wax Mexico City Kim Ye, Biquni Wax, Christine Wang, christine wang performance, documentation, Eternal telethon, Kim Ye, Kim Ye performance, Material Art Fair Mexico City, Material Art Fair pubic program Kim Ye, performance documentation, PUblic Program Material Art Fair 2016

Dominate Yourself

March 15, 2016 by admin

DOMINATE YOURSELF, is a program composed of 1-hour sessions designed to bring you face to face with the worst you have to offer. Part artist talk, part group exercise class, part D/s sermon, this participatory performance is an experiment in using physical education to transcend traditional notions of self. As a participant, you are expected be […]

Categories: 2015, 2016, event or performance, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: Dominate Yourself, Jaus, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Participatory, performance art, Sunday sermon

Art Scene

September 8, 2015 by admin

Art Scene, performance with Christine Wang, 2015. Duration: 23 minutes

Categories: 2015, event or performance, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: alter space, Awkward Threesome, Christine Wang, collaboration, documentation, Jailhouse Residency, Kim Ye and Christine Wang, Los Angeles performance art, Marathon Studios, Marshall Astor photo credit, New Performances, performance art, performance collaboration, performance documentation, Shelley Holcomb photo credit

Qualia [Bed 2015]

March 12, 2015 by admin

Watch 3 minute excerpt from the single-channel video below Qualia [Bed 2015], Single-channel video installation with drywall, wood, foam, fabric, 6 minutes 24 seconds, 2015

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, performances, things, vids, work • Tags: 6114 Venice, barnett cohen, installation, Los Angeles, sergio bromberg, Video installation

29/single/Online now!

July 5, 2014 by admin

29/single/Online now! (preview), Single-channel video, 8 minutes, 2014 Close-up POV shots of various men—their limbs, torsos, hands, and groins—as they sit, lounge, and lay in various states of undress; 29/single/Online now! unfolds like a guided tour of the male body through the lens of desire. These intimate images are strung together by an omnipotent female voice […]

Categories: 2014, EVERYTHING, vids, work

Art Dude [episodes 1-3]

June 27, 2013 by admin

Art Dude (episodes 1-3), Single-channel video w/ found audio from VICE, 8 min 30 sec, 2013 | In collaboration with Veronique D’Entremont He defines himself as a painter. This is his life’s work. His work has matured as he has matured. He is not selfish with what he creates. His materials remain true to his […]

Categories: 2013, EVERYTHING, performances, vids • Tags: art talk, collaboration, Kamikazi, Manmade, POST, venice beach, veronique d'entremont, vice

Get Away Car | Domestic Escape Artist

September 27, 2012 by admin

Domestic Escape Artist, 3-hour performance within Get Away Car Segment of documentation recorded by security camera at Steve Turner Contemporary on August 11, 2012

Categories: 2012, EVERYTHING, performances, things, vids, work • Tags: Exhibition, group show, Los Angeles, Steve Turner Contemporary, Wet Paint 4