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KCHUNG PUBLIC: Labor

May 13, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

KCHUNG PUBLIC, founded in 2011, invites visitors to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA at 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 on May 13th, 2023, from 2 pm to 6 pm, to enjoy performances, installations, and publications inspired by the Los Angeles Labor Union (also founded in 2011). This program is part of KCHUNG […]

Categories: 2023, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, Residency • Tags: Alan Nakagawa, Alejandra Herrera Silva with Trinidad McMurry Herrera, Alex Sloane, Amelia Charter, Artzenkraft, Haleigh Nickerson, installation, KChung Radio residency, Kim Zumfe, Llano del Rio Collective, Los Angeles contemporary art, Los Angeles Labor Union, MOCA, Nicholas Phillips, performance art, publications

Home LA: Venice

March 14, 2023 by Zac Chen

HomeLA produces site-specific interdisciplinary performance events in private residences. This Venice iteration takes place at the long-time canal-side home of Mark Mack and Faiza Alhassoun, and features the work of artists Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye, Emily Marchand, Jobel Medina, Flora Wiegmann & Maya Gurantz, and Stephanie Dai. This HomeLA event explores the intersection […]

Categories: 2023, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Architecture, Dance, Emily Marchand, Faiza Alhassoun, Flora Wiegmann, HomeLA, Jobel Medina, Kim Ye, Mark Mack, Matrilineal Ambivalences (in Venice), Maya Gurantz, Performance, performance art, Public and private space, Rites of Matrilineal Dissent, Site-specific performance, Stephanie Dai, venice beach, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye

Binge Watch—Excessive Eating—Performances

December 22, 2022 by Zac Chen

“Binge Watch—On Performances of Excessive Eating” is written by Lydia Horne, explores the concept of binge-watching by exploring the works of Kim Ye and Laura Ohio. The text initiates a discussion on the fascination with and discomfort around taboo topics like self-harm, domestic violence, and excessive consumption. The artist Kim Ye, who performs eating as […]

Categories: 2022, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: abjection, ASMR, binge-watching, curiosity, excessive eating, Kim Ye, Laura Ohio, Les Petites Morts, Lizzy, pancreatic cancer, performance art, pleasure, shame, voyeurism

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 […]

Categories: 2019, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: and Kim Ye, CCA, CCA Wattis Institute, Diamond Stingily, Diamond Stingily's Doing the Best I Can, Doing the Best I Can, Kim Ye, Kim Ye and Young Joon Kwak, Kim Ye Motherhood, Kim Ye Motherhood performance, Kim Ye performance art, LA performance artists, Miraclegrow, Motherhood performance, performance art, Rosha Yaghmai, Rosha Yaghmai's Miraclegrow, San Francisco performance art, the watt, The wattis institute, Wattis Institute, Young Joon Kwak

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 […]

Categories: 2016, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, performances, press, solo exhibition, work • Tags: Aaron Wrinkle, alternative economy, Art exchange, Artist Run space Los Angeles, Christopher Warwrinofsky, Dakota Noot, david bell, Erica Reiss, Guan Rong, Hai Minh Thi Nguyen, Heisue Chung-Mathieu, Hyperallergic, Ian Pines, JAY ERKER, Jessica Rath, Karen Archar, Kim Ye Los Angeles, Kim Ye Shared Value, Kim Ye VWC, Lara Salmon, Laub, Los Angeles Alternative Space, Los Angeles emerging artist, Martin Durazo, Matt Wardell, MEITAL YANIV, Patricia Burns, Patricio Morales, performance art, Shared Value, Soyoung Shin, Thinh Nguyen, Vanissa Conte, Visitor Welcome Center, Visitor Welcome Center Los Angeles, W Magazine art, Young Chung, Young Joon Kwok

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

Art Scene

September 8, 2015 by admin

Art Scene, performance with Christine Wang, 2015. Duration: 23 minutes

Categories: 2015, event or performance, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: alter space, Awkward Threesome, Christine Wang, collaboration, documentation, Jailhouse Residency, Kim Ye and Christine Wang, Los Angeles performance art, Marathon Studios, Marshall Astor photo credit, New Performances, performance art, performance collaboration, performance documentation, Shelley Holcomb photo credit

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