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.

The feature centers on Ye’s integration of sex work, motherhood, care labor, consumer culture, and technology within contemporary performance. Drawing from her background as a Chinese American professional dominatrix, sex workers’ rights advocate, and mother of two, Ye reflects on works including A Costco Shopper Analysis, DOMestication, and U Up?, as well as her solo exhibition m0mmy brain marketplace at Chapman University’s Guggenheim Gallery.

The conversation took place as part of the Studio Visits series hosted by BAD ASIANS (formerly Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities), an interdisciplinary working group based at UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. In dialogue with performance artist and scholar Zihan Loo, Ye discusses the entanglements of erotic labor, domesticity, racialized identity, and consumer capitalism, examining how these forces shape contemporary subjectivity and desire.

The article also introduces Mother-Fucker, an experimental feature-length film developed during Ye’s 2023–24 Mellon Arts Fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Moving across documentary, reality television, and desktop performance formats, the project explores East Asian femininity, apocalypse, technology, and the commodification of fantasy in the United States.

Theatre Journal is a leading peer-reviewed publication in theatre and performance studies. This feature situates Ye’s work within ongoing academic conversations on race, sexuality, labor, and performance.

To see the full conversation, visit the December 2025 issue of Theatre Journal.