Jade Yumang is an assistant professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies. His primary focus is on the concept of queer form through sculptural abstraction, installation, and performance. He received his MFA at Parsons School of Design with Departmental Honors and BFA Honors in University of British Columbia. He is also part of a New York-based collaborative duo, Tatlo, with Sara Jimenez.
My work primarily focuses on the concept of queer form. I use a variety of techniques to convey notions of phenomenology, affect, and “queer” as a process, as a verb rather than a quality. My current work addresses the term “queer” and its aesthetics through three-dimensional, site-specific installation, and performative work as a way to see how the body resists or submits through materiality and technique vis-à-vis obsessive acts, strict parameters, repetition, and forms of discipline. This direction is guided through the tracing and summoning of historical amnesia, by means of myths, scandal trials, obscenity laws, and filmic tropes. I filter these procedures through meticulous techniques and create abstract shapes that initially come from a corporeal form. My compulsiveness to place things in order in reality breaks into pieces that expose the pressure placed on non-conforming bodies and their values. http://jadeyumang.com
- MFA with Departmental Honors (Fine Arts)
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. - BFA Honors (Visual Arts)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Assistant Professor at SAIC Fiber and Material Studies http://www.saic.edu
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