Los Angeles | KIM YE

Fellowship: California Arts Council Creative Corps

August 17, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Kim Ye has been selected to receive a year-long California Arts Council’s CA Creative Corps Fellowship. Kim Ye engages in a multi-disciplinary, research-based practice that engages gendered constructions around power, and the entanglement between public space and private desire. Through their Fellowship, Kim Ye will work with SWOPLA to address social justice and community engagement […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: CA Creative Corps Artist, California Arts Council, California Healthy Places Index, Community Partners, Culture Bearer Fellowship, Fellowship, Los Angeles, Orange County

Vibrant Cities Art Grant Award

May 13, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

In June 2023, Kim Ye was awarded a grant from Vibrant Cities Art Grant. This financial support will provide Kim Ye with the means to engage in whatever artistic endeavors they wish to pursue, to research and develop ideas, embark on projects, and complete projects already underway. The Vibrant Cities Arts Grant 2023 is designed […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: Arts Development Fee Program, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Vibrant Cities Art Grant

Asian Arts Initiative Residency

April 7, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Digital Diasporas, founded by yáo collaborative in 2021, is a distributed, remote residency that gives artists the space to research, cultivate their practice, and convene across borders. Digital Diasporas is a spacious opportunity for artists to do deep thinking and form cross-border connections without the pressure of producing a final product. The final selections for the […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, Residency • Tags: Asian Arts Initiative, Beau Lai, Digital Diasporas residency, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Winnie Cheung, yáo collaborative

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

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

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

Waterboys

March 15, 2016 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: Jaus, Jockstraps, Kim Ye, latex, Los Angeles

St. Andrew’s Power Pose

March 15, 2016 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: Jaus, Kim Ye, KimYe, Los Angeles, Sportswoman

Arch Nemesis

February 18, 2016 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: Dominate Yourself, Jaus, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Sportswoman

Captive Audience

February 18, 2016 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: Jaus, latex, Los Angeles, Sportswoman

Femdom POV [mummification]

July 5, 2015 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: alter space, Awkward Threesome, FemDom, Kim Ye, latex, Los Angeles, POV, San Francisco, silicone lube

Femdom POV [trampling]

July 1, 2015 by admin

Categories: 2015, things, work • Tags: FemDom, FLR, KCHUNG, latex, Los Angeles, Pehrspace, POV, silicone lube, So Anxious, Whits & Giggles

You Deserve Nice Things [er•mez]

June 28, 2015 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: alter space, Awkward Threesome, Hermès, latex, Los Angeles, San Francisco, vinyl

You Deserve Nice Things [ey•juh’nt pruh•vok•uh•tur]

June 26, 2015 by admin

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: Agent Provacateur, alter space, Awkward Threesome, Kim Ye, latex, Los Angeles, San Francisco, sculpture

Curate LA: The Force that is Kim Ye

June 25, 2015 by admin

Photo credit: Shelley Holcomb The excerpt below is taken from a text written by Shelley Holcomb of Curate.LA Click here to experience the entire text with images in its original format. …My first experience with Kim’s work was witnessing “Art Scene”, a collaborative performance she did with Christine Wang at an artist-run space in DTLA. The piece presented […]

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Artist conversations, artist studio visit, artist write up, curate.la, Kim Ye studio visit, Los Angeles, shelley Holcomb, Shelley Holcomb curate.la, studio visit

Qualia [Bed 2015]

March 12, 2015 by admin

Watch 3 minute excerpt from the single-channel video below Qualia [Bed 2015], Single-channel video installation with drywall, wood, foam, fabric, 6 minutes 24 seconds, 2015

Categories: 2015, EVERYTHING, performances, things, vids, work • Tags: 6114 Venice, barnett cohen, installation, Los Angeles, sergio bromberg, Video installation

A Man Around the House [Confetti]

December 21, 2014 by admin

Categories: 2014, EVERYTHING, things, work • Tags: Commission, latex, Los Angeles, Private Collection

Benefit Auction at Underground Museum

December 9, 2014 by admin

Dreaming Wildly Fighting to Win Benefit art auction for Critical Resistance LA December 14th, 2015 | Online auction by Paddle8 The Underground Museum 3508 W. Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90018 More Info

Categories: 2014, auction, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: A.L. Steiner, Abigail DeVille, Alexandra Grant, Andy Robert, Angela Jennings, Arguna Neuman, art auction, Ashley Hunt, Ben Tong, benefit auction, Bobby Fuentes, Brian Getnick, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Charles gains, Christine Wang, critical resistance, Daney Saylor, David Kelley, Davida Nemeroff, Derek Corns, Dynasty Handbag, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Gloria Galvez, Hans Kuzmich, Heather M. O'Brien, Janna Ireland, Jeannine Tang, Jens Maier-Rothe, Jesus Barraza, Jibz Cameron, Jimena Sarno, Jonathan Apgar, Jonathan Takahashi, Joshua Miller, Jr., Karl Haendel, Karolina Karlic, Kean O'Brien, Keith Rocka Knittel, Ken Ehrlich, Kim Ye, Lindsay Tunkl, Los Angeles, Mariana Viturro, Mark McKnight, Mary Rassmussen, masood kamandy, Math Bass, Matthew Greenfield, Meg Madison, Michael Cataldi, Michael John Kelly, Monica Rodriguez, N-o-nS...e;nSI/c::::a_L, Nancy Popp, Olga Koumoundouros, Otherwild, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ramak Fazel, Rhys Ernst, Robert Herbst, Ron Regé, Ryan Sluggett, Sam Durant, Sandra de la Loza, Santos R. Vásquez, Sarah Cromarty, Sayre Gomez, Sean Raspet, Simone Montemurno, Taisha Paggett, underground museum, Vaginal Davis, Veronique d'Entre, Vidisha Saini, Zackary Drucker, Zoe Leonard

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Archives

Fellowship: California Arts Council Creative Corps

Vibrant Cities Art Grant Award

Asian Arts Initiative Residency

Tall, Dark, and Handsome

PSA [Self-Brainwash Meditation #404]

Dominate Yourself

Waterboys

St. Andrew’s Power Pose

Arch Nemesis

Captive Audience

Femdom POV [mummification]

Femdom POV [trampling]

You Deserve Nice Things [er•mez]

You Deserve Nice Things [ey•juh’nt pruh•vok•uh•tur]

Curate LA: The Force that is Kim Ye

Qualia [Bed 2015]

A Man Around the House [Confetti]

Benefit Auction at Underground Museum

Vicki’s

Untitled [boat]

Entice to Ensnare

Let Them Look

Nothing to Hide

Pretty is a Skill Set

A Man Around the House [Bubblegum]

A Man Around the House [Marigold]

A Man Around the House [Green Apple]

Slippery Drawers

We Did This Together

No Reason to Leave