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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 […]

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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

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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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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 […]

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Start of the week vs end of the week 🥴🎀 Start of the week vs end of the week 🥴🎀
After the last year of working on ProMomme, we off After the last year of working on ProMomme, we officially celebrated the publication of this s3x workers guide to parenting last Saturday! With readings, talks, and a screening from our forthcoming documentary at @cashmachinela our hearts are feeling full as the work takes its own journey into the world 🕊️ Get your copy, via the bios of our co-publishers @smingsmingbooks and @cashmachinela and don’t forget to get an extra copy for a working parent/erotic superhero in your life. We are already 50% sold out of our edition of 300 so don’t wait too long and miss out!

P.S. someone left their water bottle so please DM @cashmachinela if this is your’s in Dan’s hands 😅
I've got your Saturday itinerary figured out for t I've got your Saturday itinerary figured out for the weekend 😎

Stop 1 (midday): Go to @acidfreelosangeles book fair where @smingsmingbooks will be with ProMomme: A Sex Workers Guide to Parenting, along with many other amazing art books

Stop 2 (4pm): Come to @cashmachinela for a live reading by Promomme contributors, including:

@lordedestroyer
switchcarmen
@mysterious_witt
@princessmarxofficial
@misterpigggy 
gabssscg
and Your's Truly!

Stop 3: Fangirl out and party with us in Atwater Village 

Stop 4: Floss your teeth and go to bed
I’m been on the @swopla steering committee and w I’m been on the @swopla steering committee and wanted to share a little about some of the things we do as SWs transforming society!🫸🔮🫷With the ProMomme book launch coming up Saturday 10/19 (prior post) consider coming out to @cashmachinela for the readings and supporting our work through donating via the @swopla bio. Not in LA? Issues of ProMomme can be purchased from @smingsmingbooks through the link in my bio 👆
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