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Interdisciplinary artist

All images and footage copyright Kai-Oi Jay Yung

My cross-disciplinary practice confronts spectator with a playful reassessment of identity. As British born Chinese, I am particularly keen to unlock how we function within particular cultures. My hybrid sculpture, doodles, performances with sonic and moving image are intent on gaging how nations perceive/evaluate/categorise one another, and on deciphering how myths perpetuate.

Welcome, you've come to one of my multi-sensory gallery based undertakings Paradise Stories, 2008. For more details of my diverse projects, residencies, video works and performances, please visit the below sites, thank you.

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Sock Exchange, commission for Climate For Change,FACT, 2009

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Grizedale Arts Residency Commission to Nanjing, China & Arnolfini Exhibition, Far West, 2008

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Coverage

Kai-Oi Jay Yung's Paradise preview of select works

The Installation

..Making Paradise

Documentation of Paradise Stories, 2008

Please enjoy the below selection of interviews/moving image documentation and audience viewpoints following the exhibition of Paradise Stories my installation incorporating eight video pieces at RENEW Rooms and also my curation of artists dealing with the thematic at The International Gallery.

BBC Radio Interview, 4mins33

Kai-Oi Jay speaks to BBC Radio with regards to her practice concept and implementation of Paradise Stories.

Documentation of my work at RENEW Rooms, March 2008. Part 1/2,9mins52

Documentation of my work at RENEW Rooms, March 2008.Part 2, 4mins41

Talking to The Viewer, Part 1, 8mins38

Gaging visitor's responses to and experiences of Paradise Stories

Talking to The Viewer, Part 2, 9mins36

Dual Opening, 6mins9

Footage of the opening of Paradise Stories, both at RENEW Rooms, my own work and work of selected artists exhibited at International Gallery.

Juice Aleem's (Coldcut/New Flesh) accappella opening for Paradise Stories, 4m52secs

Viewing The Viewer, 4m27s

Documentation footage of Viewers visiting Kai-Oi Jay's installation at RENEW Rooms.

Viewer spotted at The International Gallery, 22 seconds

Definite paradise found here for one viewer as she enjoys some sonic interplay with The Note C unawares.

Culturepool Event, Part 1/3, 8mins6, 15th March 2008

Kai-Oi Jay Yung discusses with members of the public her dual venue exhibition.

Culturepool Event, Part 2/3, 9mins54

Culturepool Event, Part 3, 9mins26secs

Thanks for taking the time to watch my videos

Governments, urban planners, scientists, religious institutions and economists continue to seek implementation of a near utopian paradigm for the benefits of inhabitants and global positioning. Modern day living- our surroundings and realities of human nature/way things are however is often a satire on any idyllic notion of paradise.

Spurred by the endless quest to reach utopian ideas of Shambhala (Tibeten, Indian, Chinese…?), Paradise Stories seeks to unlock any ‘true’ notion of Liverpool/anyplace and its inhabitants through transformation of the gallery space into a multi-sensory environment/installation.

Arrived at through a process of investigation, chance meetings, and contrived participatory activity, Paradise Stories will emerge as a physical re-interpretation of the living city- its modern day desires, vices, corruption, loss, joy, aspirations, hope and solidarity.

Paradoxically mirroring the flux external to the city, it offers a mock sanctity remote to the noisy regeneration. Yet this sanctity itself is embroiled with yearnings symptomatic of the fall, inescapably unleashing the multifaceted consequences of man’s insatiable desires for Paradise.

ARTISTS AND VENUES

Paradise Stories will simultaneously inhabit two high profile venues within Liverpool.

I will transform the highly polished traditionally architecture/design space of the Renew Rooms to house my interdisciplinary interpretation of Paradise.

Simultaneously, I invite the work of 8 artists from Georgio to Stuttgart to voice their interpretation of paradise through a variety of artforms.

This physical bi-polaric will surely facilitate more paradise for more inhabitants.

RENEW Rooms: 4-28 March 2008

In the RENEW Rooms I focus on stories from Liverpool’s inhabitants, featuring subjects from a range of backgrounds, ages, occupations and ethnicities. Through interconnected one-to-one investigations, chance and contrived meetings, her installation crosses sculpture to video installation and live performance, voicing modern day vices, loss, aspirations and solidarity.

People can expect an assault on the senses at RENEW Rooms. Eight videos include an insight into a cab driver’s unsuspecting daily encounters, a feng shui expert talking about how the Chinese Archway was positioned using ancient techniques, and the raised voices from Afro-Caribbean mother and daughter ‘The Wentons’. Their thorny discussion delves into integration across Liverpool since the Toxteth riots. The videos are embedded amongst exuberant day-glow half-animal forms, at once humorous and sinister, and a plethora of explosive improvised jungle surroundings - even a water feature. There is respite though, as a shelter construction offers a degree of escape from the noise of the surrounding plastic Paradise.

The International Gallery: 4-21 March 2008

Work by 8 artists trying to find Paradise

With Chong Boon Pok, Didi Dunphy, Chris Eckersley, Maslen & Mehra, Kurtz & Beatty, Faye Peacock, Sari Lievonen, Kaspar Wimberley

Together the selected work creates a collage of artforms spanning live performance and sound art to photography. Audiences can interact with the interactive ‘Shadow Tracing’ event, a movement triggered instrumental installation ‘The Note C’, and dreamlike alienation worlds of Maslen and Mehra’s photographed light sculptures.

Preview of selected artist's work

VENUES and EXHIBITION TIMES

Dual private view of both exhibitions:

Tuesday, March 4, starting at the RENEW Rooms at 6pm, followed by street interaction piece leading to The International Gallery at 8pm.

Live performance and sonic at both venues, impromptu act by Juice Aleem (New Flesh, Coldcut) and turntabalism from Reuben Wu, Ladytron.

The RENEW Rooms, The Tea Factory, 82 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ

4-28 March 2008 (Weekdays 9-5pm, Sat/Sun 11-5pm. Closed

21-24/3/2008 Easter)

The International Gallery, 34A Slater Street, Liverpool, L1 4BX

4-21 March 2008 (Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm)

Funded by Culture Company, Liverpool, European Capital of Culture, 2008

For the latest Capital of Culture news visit www.liverpool08.com.

http://www.theartorganisation.co.uk/tao8%20liverpool.htm34a

I would also like to express thanks to Brian Wong

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