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Acts of Selfhood: Female Performance Artists

April 6, 2019 by admin

Written by Leanna Robinson If the art world is a microcosm of our society at large, then the performance stage presents a unique opportunity for artists to write or rewrite reality as they would prefer it to be. It’s undeniable that women continue to face a host of gender-specific difficulties, both in society and in […]

Categories: 2019, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: artillery, contemporary performance art, female performance art, Kayla Tange, Kim Ye, kim ye performance artist, LA female performance artists, Leanna Robinson, Paige Emery, performance art, woman artists los angeles, woman performance artists

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 […]

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YJK + Kim Ye @ Wattis Institute

January 21, 2019 by admin

A performance by Young Joon Kwak + Kim Ye March 7th, 2019 @ 6:30pm CCA Wattis Institute 360 Kansas Street (between 16th & 17th Streets) San Francisco, CA 94103 USA 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 […]

Categories: 2019, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Banff, Banff Canada, CAA, california college for the arts, california college of the arts, Canada, Dodie Bellamy, Kim Ye, Martin Astorga, Maternal River of No Return, Mommy and Baby, Mommy and baby kim Ye young joon kwak, The wattis institute, Walter Phillips Gallery, Xina Xurner, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Femmebit Fundraiser @ NAVAL

January 21, 2019 by admin

FEMMEBIT FUNDRAISER on Thursday, January 24, 2019 7-10pm at NAVEL 1611 S Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 FEMMEBIT • SUPPORT • RSVP • 10$ Suggested Donation A triennial festival uniting an all-female roster of video artists based in Los Angeles, FEMMEBIT spans screenings, live broadcasts of panels and workshops, AR/VR exhibits and more. With your support, FEMMEBIT returns this March to celebrate Women’s Month! Uniting over 40 artists […]

Categories: 2019, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, non-profit + fundraising, screening • Tags: Alex Brown, Alex Pelly, Amanda Joy, Amanda Siegel, Ann Hirsch, Annapurna Kumar, Candace Reckinger, Casey Kauffmann, Claire Evans, Claire Marie Vogel, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Dahn Gim, Danielle Parsons, Eileen Cowin, Eva Aguila, Eva Aguila (Coaxial Arts Foundation), female media artists, Femmebit, femmebit fundraiser, FLOAT, fundraiser, Giselle Zatonyl, Institute for New Feeling, Isabelle Albuquerque, Jacquelyn London, Jane Mi, Janna Avner, Jeanette Bonds, Jeepneys, Jenny Sayaka Nono, JJ Stratford, Julie Weitz, Julieta Gil, Kate Hollenbach, Kate Parsons, Kate Parsons (FLOAT), Kim Ye, Kriz Tonian, Kyttenjanae, Laura Darlington, Maria Lynch, Mark Allen, Mitra Saboury, NAVAL, Oonceoonce, Petra Cortright, Rachel Mason, Richelle Gribble, Sam Vernon, Sarah Manuwal, Sarah Zucker, Selwa Sweidan, Sharsten Plenge (WOAH), Suzy Poling, triennial video festival, veronique d'entremont, video art la, women artists in new media, women video artists

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 2.0 + LSB Institute

October 31, 2018 by admin

Lady Scumbag 2.0 September 4 – October 6, 2018 Pomona College Chan Gallery Studio Art Hall Room #123 370 Columbia Ave. RECEPTION: September 27th | 3:00-4:30p Through public engagement, this ongoing project promotes the visibility of a new feminine archetype: the Lady Scumbag. Operating outside the normal behavior we expect from good girls, this archetype […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, solo exhibition • Tags: Ali Kheradyar, Amber McCall, Anonymous LSB, Chan Gallery, Chan Gallery Pomona College, Cole James, Donna Dolore, Emily Joyce, Fuck U Pay Us, Fuck You Pay Us, FUPU, Ilona Szwarc, Jacinto Astiazarán, Jasmine Nyende, Kim Ye, Lady Scumbag Chan Gallery, Lady Scumbag Pomona College, Laub, LSB Institute, LSB POmona College, MEITAL YANIV, Micol Hebron, Nina Sarnelle, Pomona college, Pomona College Department of Art, San Cha, Thinh Nguyen, Vanessa Conte, Vicki Syal, Xina Xurner, Xina Xurner feat. San Cha w/ Jacinto Astiazarán

Pill0w Talk @ The Standard

August 12, 2018 by admin

Pill0w Talk is community organizing on sex, love, and communication by Fiona @fifidunks Duncan. With giveaways from American-made pleasure product manufacturer Doc Johnson. Thursday, August 16th @ 7pm Penthouse Suite the Standard, Downtown LA 550 S. Flower Street FREE (LOVE) Last month we talked about sex, love, and the Internet with Lisa Katnic, Sean Monahan, Mandy Harris Williams and Soraya King. This month, we’re taking on the […]

Categories: 2018, appearances, conversation, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Ann Hirsch, community conversation, Damien Moreau, doc johnson, Downtown Standard hotel, Fiona Duncan, free love, Hard to read, Jaime Levy, Kim Ye, Lisa Katnic, love and the Internet, Mandy Harris Williams, pill0w talk, pillow talk, Sean Monahan, sex and the Internet, Soraya King, Standard LA, The Standard Penthouse

Young Joon Kwak + Mutant Salon: CAVERNOUS

July 20, 2018 by admin

CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon Curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar July 12-August 26, 2018 *ARTFORUM Critics Pick* LACE’s Summer Residency presents CAVERNOUS by artist Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon, a collective of queer-trans-femme-POC artists and performers and a platform for community collaborations. CAVERNOUS is a kaleidoscopic environment that queers the last bastion of manhood in the domestic […]

Categories: 2018, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, press • Tags: Alice Cunt, Alli Miller, andy campbell, Anna Luisa Petrisko, artforum, artforum critics picks, Bela Messe, Cavernous, Corazon Del Sol, critics picks, Dalton Chase Goulette, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, David Lyons., Dirty Looks On Location, Dove Ayinde, Jacinto Astiazarán, Juan Gudiño, Kim Ye, LA queer artists, LACE, Laub, LGBT center, Long Long (Thinh Nguyen), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles LACE, Los Angeles LGBT center, Marvin Astorga, Matt Savitsky, Mutant Salon, ONE archives, One Archives LA, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Project Rage Queen, queer artist, Queer artists Los Angeles, Roxy Morataya, Sarah Gail, Tonia B., TravisD, Young Joon Kwak

Lady Scumbag at Visitor Welcome Center

May 9, 2018 by admin

LADY SCUMBAG Visitor Welcome Center 3006 W 7th St., Suite 200A Los Angeles, CA 90005 March 17 – April 21, 2018 Lady Scumbag can best be described as a counterfeit Basic Bitch. Crass, self-interested, and grimy on the inside, she puts herself first, using her well-honed—if undisguised—feminine wiles to suck the resources out of unsuspecting […]

Categories: 2018, collaboration, EVERYTHING, news, solo exhibition • Tags: Kim Ye, Kim Ye Visitor Welcome Center, Lady scumbag, Lady Scumbag art, Lady Scumbag project, LSB, LSB at VWC, Visitor Welcome Center, VWC

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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