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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

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

Vocal Transplantation

March 30, 2018 by admin

Vocal Transplantation is a performance, a therapeutic exercise, and an experiment in trust. Taking the bureaucracies in which we circulate as our starting point, we point to the limits these systems impose upon our expressions of personhood. As a strategy to combat a structure that draws its power from the ability to categorize, we blur […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, work • Tags: Kim Ye, Kim Ye LACE, Kim Ye Meital Yaniv performance, LACE, LACE performance LA, live performance vocal transplantation LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles LACE, MEITAL YANIV, Meital Yaniv Kim Ye collaboration, mothertongues, mothertongues (Meital Yaniv & Kim Ye), mothertongues live performance, mothertongues Los Angeles, mothertongues performance, mothertongues performance art, Vocal Transplantation, Vocal Transplantation performance

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

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

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

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

Be the Cult Leader You Wish to Follow

July 9, 2016 by admin

This workshop for artists is designed to teach the cultural producer how to BYD: BUILD YOUR DREAM Learn what artists have in common with cult leaders and use their tips & tricks to cultivate a following! Stop self-sabotaging and start to BYD today. Protégés will learn (and be subject to) brainwashing techniques, aesthetic overhauls, manipulating […]

Categories: 2016, artist presentation, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, performances, work, workshop • Tags: Artist as Cult Leader, Artist Workshop LA, Be the cult leader you wish to follow, Cult Leader Training, Cult Leader workshop, Cult Leadership Los Angeles, Kim Ye Artist performance, Kim Ye Machine Project, Kim Ye performance workshop, Kim Ye workshop, Los Angeles Artist Workshop, Machine Project, Machine Project artist performance, Machine Project workshop, Motivational artist workshop los angeles, Participatory art, Pomona college, Pomona College Kim Ye, Pomona College performance art, Pomona College performance artist

Chinese Dream [Vegas Suite]

June 12, 2016 by admin

Categories: 2016, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: alter space, art object, chinese dream, Kim Ye, latex, painting, San Francisco group exhibition, Shakey towns, vulcanized latex

Chinese Dream [Tub life]

June 11, 2016 by admin

Categories: 2016, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: alter space, art object, Battery SF, Kim Ye, latex sculpture, liquid latex, Los Angeles artist, Shakey towns, Shaky Towns Alter Space SF, Swan Francisco, vulcanized latex, wall piece

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

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