Kai-Oi Jay Yung
Artist's Statement
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My cross-disciplinary approach confronts the spectator with a powerfully playful and scatological reassessment of identity as constructed by cultural institutions. Propelled by my own displacement as BBC (British Born Chinese), a racial insult from a student as an English teacher in China, 2002, led me to remark my own ethnic divide from my motherland. Unable to speak Mandarin, a studentÍs bemusing ïbananaÍ accusation ñYellow on the Outside white on the insideî has spurred me to 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, radically opening up new orders and ways of looking. In glorious techni-colour, highly laboured, they are all manifestations of an obsession with my ñblobî aesthetic; a congealing of all matter into the order-chaos of life itself. I lure the viewer beyond the crass hi-glossy living of surface logic to the mutative underbelly of the congealing of all matter. Each work expulses and exposes the making process.
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Images of work
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Brief CV
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EDUCATION
2003-2006
BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1:1, University of Dundee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Doodles and Bloblettes, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2005
Fortune 888, University of Dundee, Cooper Gallery
Self, Channel 4 Website
The Opium Room, Lower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Transvoyeur, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool
Gene Culture, Egg Space, Liverpool
The Neatline, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
The Wormhole Saloon III, The Whitechapel Gallery, London
Lands of Freedom, University of Maryland, USA
Ganghut, Melbourne, Australia
Members Show, Generator Projects, Dundee
Student Show, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2005
Scrap, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, Collaboration
Dundee Radiology Art Exhibition, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Self, McManus Galleries, International touring exhibition
Town Planning, Dundee, curating urban art event: installation-live poetry
Scottish Students On Screen, Glasgow
2004
Futureshorts Screening, Bestival, Isle of Wight
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS & COMPETITIONS
2006
William Armstrong Davidson Prize
The Wimberley Medal
The Alan Woods Memorial Prize
PAD Scheme, Chinese Centre of Arts, Manchester
RESIDENCIES
2006
Springboard, Cove Park, Scotland
WORK EXPERIENCE
2006
A N Magazine, commissioned to write 2006 Degrees (a-n.co.uk) sharing degree show experience
2003
Assisting sculptor David Falconer (Vermin Death Stack and Vermin Death Star, Saatchi Gallery, London)
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Contact
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Email: yung_jay@hotmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/kaioi
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