Power identities and fetish roles outstrip partner selections, manifesting carnal knowledge of the nth degree in Kim Ye’s open source locker room politics. Her performances are corporeal prescriptions: sculptures of desire, paintings of allure, installations and video which are bondage lairs, irresistibly inviting booby traps that provoke but ease into the unexplored, unconventional and the damned. Ye’s influences leave nothing unturned. The sexuality-based paradigm is punk, revolutionary and necessary; roused from BDSM philosophy, it presents multitudes of intercoursed quantum physics; collaboration, intimacy, and conversation about residing in the body you are in and communing with the corporate subculture. (KG). http://kimye.com
Kim Ye – Installation, 2015. AstroTurf, grommets, thread, Stretcher bars, latex, embroidery hoop, vinyl, zipper, articulating wall mount.
Kim Ye – Installation, 2015. AstroTurf, grommets, thread, Stretcher bars, latex, embroidery hoop, vinyl, zipper, articulating wall mount.
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Max Presneill & Kio Griffith from ARTRA Curatorial is a volunteer organization for the implementation of new modes of exhibition, locally, nationally and internationally, that feature artist-led emerging platforms and opportunity based interactions and community building via social practice type events. Founded in 2009, the group has instigated large scale art events and exchanges, as well as the alternative art fair Co/Lab, throughout Los Angeles and has new projects being presented in China, France and UK in 2014, as well as the continuation of their MAS ATTACK series of events both in LA and other US cities.
