NAYEON YANG

A VISUAL ARTIST

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Permeation: (De)composing a Territory

2013
Body temperature and cold weather
Performance Video 4’45”

Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery and Harold Arts

Hear.t.ea (Brewing sincere tea)

2009 (private version) / 2013 (public version)
Approx. 20′
Perormance


-instruction to make a cup of sincere tea
1. Write a sincere letter with red ink on my body.
2. Wash the body in a hot bath.
3. Leave the bathtub when the water turns red.
4. Enjoy.

Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery and Harold Arts

Tongue is a performative installation of a maze, illustrating the uncontrollable nature of language and its unstable function for communication. Sounds of birds and ripping plastic fill a space. I am writing on the vulnerable clear plastic walls of the maze while whimsical wind blows on the plastic, waving between the material and my gesture of writing. The writing eventually leaves illegible words and rips on those transparent walls. The piece remains as an installation, which reveals personal, emotional traces rather than a communicable transcript.

Tongue

2012
Ball point pen on clear plastic
Variable Dimension

Writing on Breath

2010
Chewing gum bubbles and threads
Dimension variable

MDW Fair 2012 at Mana Contemporary / Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery 

“Episode 2” on (Channel 21) CAN tv, April 11, May 16

i was here

2010
Performance Video
2′ 35″

Spill at Betty Rymer Galleries

Dear S,

2009 -14
Water-based color pen, and tears on a coffee stained paper roll
156 x 50.5 inches

Celebration

2010
Digital Print

Quotations

2010
Artist’s body with unwanted wounds, knife, and plastic wrap
Dimensions variable