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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” […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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