Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Matrilineal Ambivalences

December 8, 2022 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Matrilineal Ambivalences is a new performance by Multi-disciplinary artists and performers Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye that continues their series of collaborative performances Rites of Matrilineal Dissent (2015 – ongoing). Kwak and Ye reprise their roles as “Baby Girl” and “Mommy,” enacting their dissent to harmful notions of womanhood and femininity, and emergence from […]

Categories: 2022, collaboration, EVERYTHING, performances, vids, work • Tags: AAPI Performance Artists, Angela Washko, Asian American performance art, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Jesse Stiles, Kelly strayhorn theater, Matrilineal Ambivalences, National Endowment for the Arts, Performance artist Los Angeles, Pittsburgh performance art, Scott Andrew, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

FAIL SAFE: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh

November 5, 2022 by admin

FAIL SAFE: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh Friday & Saturday, November 11 – 12, 2022 8:00pm with ASL Interpretation Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave. Pay What Moves You: $15 – $35 BUY TICKETS HERE! Fail-Safe is a recurring variety performance show which brings together artists exploring performance across disciplines to present new experimental projects in […]

Categories: 2022, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Angela Washko, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, Caroline Yoo, FAIL-safe, Fail-Safe and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh, Formosa (Jellyfish), Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Goofy Toof, Jesse Stiles, Kelly strayhorn theater, London Williams, Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak, MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clarke-Verdery, Rites of Matrilineal Dissent, Samira Mendoza and Davine Byon, Scott Andrew, Swampwalk, The National Endowment for the Arts, Xina Xurner, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Frieze Seoul 2022

August 25, 2022 by admin

Curated by two international art non-profits, GYOPO (Los Angeles) and WESS (Seoul), Frieze Film at Frieze Seoul 2022 will span two locations near Gyeongbokgung Palace, Together Together and Magjib. Titled I Am My Own Other, this program of ten films explores the effects of technology on the ideation of self; the framing of nationhood; societal conformity; and gender and […]

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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

The Cave in Canadian Art

December 23, 2018 by admin

THE CAVE September 29 – December 14, 2018 Walter Phillips Gallery, Main Space Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive Banff, Alberta CANADA Organized by Acting Curator Jacqueline Bell Opening Reception Friday, September 28, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye in conversation with John Tain Saturday, September 29, […]

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Where I am My Own Other, Where My Mother is Me

February 20, 2017 by admin

Where I am My Own Other, Where My Mother is Me, collaboration w/Young Joon Kwak, 2017. Duration: 15 minutes, 3 seconds. Videography: Abigail Collins, Jacinto Astiazarán; Sounds: Jeepneys & Whiteboy Scream, Corazon Del Sol & Barbara T. Smith, Marvin Astorga; [Dog Rock] sculpture: Corazon Del Sol. Contains footage from Mutant Salon’s Festival De Las Muertas […]

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