Jun!yi Min

second year MFA student

IG @performancesandpain

Jun! (she/her) is a trans performance artist from Singapore. Her performances place her body in precarious and discomforting situations of struggle. These moments often resist immediate understanding and require her live audiences to sit with slow change.

The performances contain an element of covering that prevents full access to the subject in question. Like clothes, the veils (whether in the form of physical objects, or darkness) act as protection as well as mystification for the performer. This in turn devalues sight as being the most useful sense to access work, and the body at work.

Ultimately, Jun! is asking for her audience to sit alongside her, and navigate the line between digesting and consuming the struggling body.

Cooking with Jun was performed with the help of the IDEAS grant by Qualcomm Institute, 2022

While visually un-paired, I cooked fishhead soup in a suspended white box with the help of the audience. The project was a fun, absurdly over-technological experiment that explores disorientation while being in an alienating body.

Like the half chopped fish head I cooked, I split my vision by looking into a Zoom call running on my phone. The Zoom call consisted of just Zoom tiles named "Left Eye", and "Right Eye". Each Zoom call tile had a corresponding Webcam that was attached to a stick.

_ntangle was performed at Bread and Salt as part of a group show Pink Slip with my wonderful MFA cohort, 2022

_ntangle was made out of necessity – a need for a soft coming out to Father.

Performance score

1) begin with gender neutral clothing

2) crawl into plastic cocoon

3) seal the cocoon

4) change into femme clothes

5) emerge

For the performance, I video-called my family, who were tuning in from Singapore, to introduce them to my chosen family on the ground. I then hung them up in the open ceiling of the performance site to watch me perform. After lighting a few incense sticks for my Grandfather who passed away recently, I begun the performance.