October-November, Libya Exchnage, Invited by Liverpool Biennial & British Council
August 2007, Hong Kong, Arts COuncil Project
May 2007, Coldstore, Berlin
www.thecoldstore.org
March 2007, Villa Waldberta, Munich
www.open-here.eu, www.villa-waldberta.de
Cove Park, Summer 2006, Invited by Graham Fagen
http://www.grahamfagen.com/
Publications
Skank Bloc Bologna, Tart Gallery, San Francisco, 2008-9
‘Wrongteous included in a publication produced by Leo Fitzmaurice and Paul Rooney, Singapore, Sydney and Berlin Biennials & A Foundation, Liverpool, 2008
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About me: Video, Animation, Sculpture, Performance, Painter
My cross-disciplinary approach confronts the spectator with a powerfully playful reassessment of identity as constructed by cultural institutions. Propelled by my own displacement as BBC (British Born Chinese), I reconsider my own identity and how I function within particular cultures; feeding into a conceptual process that seeks to eradicate rigid systems of logic and categorization.
My video pieces, installations and sculptures move action beyond the canvas. In glorious techni-colour, highly laboured, all are manifestations of an obsession with the “blob” aesthetic; a congealing of all matter into the order-chaos of life itself. Destroy and recreate. Roar.
Exhibitions range from Istanbul Biennial, Arnolfini, Whitechapel Galley and Tart, San Francisco. Residencies and collaborations include Grizedale Arts & Vitamin Creative Space, China, Cove Park, Munich and Libya with British Council & Liverpool Biennial.
Critical writing ranges from A-N to European Magazine, workshops include Tate to Manchester Art Gallery and Cornerhouse.
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Contact: yung_jay@hotmail.com
Links:
Just launched: http://www.jay-yung.com
http://www.rhiz.eu/person-24088-en.html
http://www.myspace.com/paradisestories
http://www.happystacking.tv/blog/k=jay%20produce
Facebook: Jay Yung Contemporary Artist
http://www.myspace.com/artsockexchange
Facebook: Sock Exchange
Munich Residency, Video: Madly Into Night plus paintings, 2007
Who I'd like to meet: Curators, artists, writers, directors, scratchologists, lyricists, boys boys girls girls
Madly Into Night, 1 minute 24 seconds from 5 minutes 30 seconds, 2007
Villa Waldberta, Munich, EU funded residency
Set in Bavaria, I fragment three realities; the global shame of the holocaust, local history of Ludwig II's colurful, mysterious rule, and personal love story of a Munich inhabitant. Assuming both role of the mad king and fated empress Sissi, I deploy physicality of body to enact my internal interpretation of these truths in relation to specific locations and prop/objects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAO31f6mQKg
The Room, 20 seconds excerpt from 3 minutes 33 seconds, 2006
Commission for Bracket This III, Liverpool Biennial, Independents, 2006 as part of an interdisciplinary video installation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bao4EDFEjXI
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Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Sonic Blob Documentation of Installation show, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wqLOJhIMo
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Kai-Oi Jay Yung visual-sonic solo show, Scotland, May 2006. Opening evening three live performances, including:
The Real Michael.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRkpVtyHd1Q
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Click below to watch my Showreel; edited excerpts from selected works 2004-2006.
Fruit Loops, 23s from 2m35s
Speed Dated, 1m from 6m11s
French Fancies, 46s from 7m23
Skye, 42s from 15 minutes
SuperMLottery, 46s from 8m32s
Diggin U, 50s from 33m33s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iG-gHEIuEc
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Video Excerpts
Trampoline. Video Performance, February 2006, 1m from 7ms42s
Rapunzel
Video Animation, March 2006, 54s from 6m38s
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CROSSING DOCUMENTARY
Socking, Excerpt 2.5 minutes from 20 minutes.
My video 'Socking' platforms the voices in the UK textile and sock industry, delving into the vestiges and struggles of an industry in decline and cost implications to our environment. From the turning process of an established Nottingham sock manufacturer to origin of yarn and newly born goats of a Devon farm to ambitions of eco-aware production process. Part of Sock Exchange, see www.myspace.com/artsockexchange.
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Beyond The Arch, 2007
1 minute excerpt from 15 minutes
The video was commissioned as part of a one night event– Beyond The Arch celebrating Chinese New Year, 2007 at Walk The Plank, Liverpool.
Departing from 19th century Blue Funnel Line, through boarding houses, laundrettes and arriving at present day Liverpool-Shanghai twinning. Chinatown and it's place within the city’s flux is set in context of its inhabitants and shifting historical, social, and economic transitions, juxtaposed with the artist's personal memories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoM2OO639g
Self, 4 minutes showreel excerpt from 12 minutes, 2005
Commissioned by Scottish Arts Council, Dundee City Council and Hot Chocolate. Documenting youth outreach project, Exodus. Exhibited, Self, McManus Galleries, 2005.
Nanling Village Project, China with Grizedale Arts and Vitamin Creative Space
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I worked closely with two Nanling families producing local produce (peanut oil and dried food) to foster their craft skills in a bid to stimulate their thought process in relation to regional identities and wider context of global economy.
CURRENT/UPCOMING
Residency Vilnius, Lithuania, 15th June-15th July, 2009
http://www.manoteritorija.lt/index.php/pageid/514
Residency La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, August-September 2009
Exhibition Art fair: Art-O-Rama, France, 11th-26th September 2009
www.art-o-rama.fr
The Bauhaus lab Marseille proposes an art residency inspired by Moholy-Nagy’s journey to Marseilles in 1929. His experimental film "Marseille Vieux-Port" will be the starting point for a reflection led by resident artists. Marseille’s urban development, a contemporary reinterpretation of the Bauhaus, and interdisciplinarity will also be discussed. A lecture programme orchestrated by actors from various fields of the arts, architecture and urbanism will feed this research process.
During the residency, ten artists from various fields - video, performance, sound, photography- will work within the structure. Lectures open to the public as well as multimedia workshops for children will also take place during those 3 weeks. During the exhibition period (2 weeks), the structure will host the works created by artists.
On invitation from Bauhaus Lab
www.emaho.fr/blab
Skank Bloc Bologna, Tart Gallery, San Francisco, 2009
Publication including participation from artists such as Ryan Gander, Tim Etchells, Anne Colvin.
The Kiss of A Lifetime Tour
Vane (as part of the Print Biennale), Newcastle, 6th - 23rd August 2009, www.vane.org.uk
Bearspace, Deptford, London, 4th-12th September 2009
http://www.bearspace.co.uk/programmekiss.html
RECENT
Cornerhouse: 'State Legacy': 'Chinese Art & Globalisation', 20 May-12th June 2009
PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION/ BRITISH INTERPRETATIONS OF CHINA AND CHINESE ART
A unique opportunity to question and unravel the complex impact of China’s advancing economy and culture on its rural landscape and Communist structure, as artist Kai-Oi Jay Yung facilitates Skype interaction with UK-based arts organisation Grizedale Arts and the eco-village-based Happy Stacking China project. Established artist Mike Chavez-Dawson gives a unique take on three questions relating to Chinese art and globalisation through a one-off live musical performance, followed by an hour in conversation with artist/curator Kwong Lee at Castlefield Gallery.
Kai-Oi Jay Yung explores her Chinese heritage and interdisciplinary practice, offering a unique personal insight into her artistic process that traverses an international diaspora of voices, platforms and processes. From FACT to Istanbul Biennial, the Sock to King Ludwig II, how does Contemporary Chinese art across the diaspora hinge upon its heritage? An hour’s discussion and debate will follow with an opportunity to discuss the contemporary art scene and marketplace via an E-Space Lab connection to Shanghai and a panel of locally based curators and artists.
Climate For Change: Sock Exchange, FACT, Liverpool, 6-12 April, 2009
Creamfields-Grizedale Arts Collaboration, 23-24 August 2008
http://www.creamtvfields.tv/
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Far West, Arnolfini Gallery, 28 June-31 August 2008
Alongside Seven Samurai, Xu Bing, David Blandy, Liu Ding, Cao Fei, Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno, Unmask Group, Gunilla Klingberg, Surasi Kusolwong, Michael Lin, Yoko Ono, Maverick Press, SOI Project, Janek Simon and Support Stucture.
The Far West concept store will provide customers with the experience of interacting with, producing, and then purchasing, a selection of specially branded products, designed by artists from ornaments to music, comics, food, toys, and artworks.
Artist Donation Box, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, June+ 2008
Set in context of recent catastrophic cyclone in Myanmar and earthquake in Sichuan, China have claimed numerous lives and made devastating destructions in both countries.
Alongside artists, designers and friends of the cultural circles in Hong Kong, invited to design unique donation boxes exhibited and used for fund-raising at Artist Commune between in June. Within 2008, the boxes will be actively placed in various upcoming art events and opening ceremonies as part of our fund-raising efforts. All donations collected will be sent to the victims in Myanmar and Sichuan by Oxfam.
A documentary exhibition will be held one year after this project, to show the trace from each organization and the amount of money rasied with the Art Donation Box.
See http://www.artdonationbox.blogspot.com/
Liverpool Biennial 2008
‘Wrongteous included in a publication produced by Leo Fitzmaurice and Paul Rooney, to be launched at Singapore, Sydney and Berlin Biennials. Launch, A Foundation, Liverpool, 19/9; 20.00-21.00
My Projects
PARADISE STORIES, programme of Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008
For BBC Radio interviews, images, footage and full details of this project see:
www.myspace.com/paradisestories
Paradise Stories simultaneously inhabited the space of two contrasting Liverpool venues. The highly polished traditionally architecture/design space of the Renew Rooms housed my interdisciplinary recreation and interpretation of Paradise whilst I deployed alternative space of The International Gallery to orchestrate works of selected international artists who deal with the utopian thematic complementarily. Surely more paradise for more inhabitants...
http://www.independentsbiennial.co.uk/2008events/81-liverpool-int-artists, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre
Future Confessional, Performance, Wave If You're Really There, St. Brides, Mercy, 29/11/2008
I invite unsuspecting visitor into the intimate confines of Future Confessional. In the setting of St Bride’s Church, I adopts my own interpretative role of mystic/savant, exploring our yearning and subconscious desire for spiritual well being and understanding of personal life journey. From Cosmopolitan quiz to Dingbat deciphering, I Ching reading.. this one on one involves a certain degree of game play, trust and chance.
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Treasures, Leading art workshops with groups from MOWLL and Rotunda in association with Tate Liverpool and Culture Company, exhibition for Capital of Culture, Liverpool, 2008
Hi Jay Indeed the Winchester Mystery House, forming part of a new performance film and re-enactment, watch this myspace for future updates. was also in liverpool recently, at the Tate for a review on AN Interface, hope you are well best Alex
Our gallery is a little over subscribed at the moment. Have you been to the show? it's been hard work, but great to meet so many interseting folk. we intend to do more shows like this next year. keep in touch with us at our website.. http://www. mutatebritain. com
