Young Joon Kwak

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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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 […]

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MANA Contemporary Body + Film Festival

May 10, 2017 by admin

Mana Contemporary Chicago, in Partnership with Chicago Dancemakers Forum and Montom Arts AnnouncesProgramming for First Annual Mana Contemporary Body + Camera Festival: May 20 & 21, 2017. The festival will feature over 40+ short films by emerging and established artists from around the world, that explore the intersection between the body and the moving image. The […]

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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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Mutant Salon performance | Hammer Museum

October 24, 2016 by admin

The Hammer Museum presents Mutant Salon’s Festival De Las Muertas, a performance and art festival that will engage audiences through a mutant beauty parlor, performances, happenings, music, poetry readings, and a selection of zines by members of the extended Mutant Salon community of queer, trans, womyn, POC, and mutant artists and performers. Collectively, these artists […]

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