Name: Kym Ward 
Place of Birth: UK
Year of Birth: 1982
Areas of Work: performance, video, installation
Webseite: www.kymward.com

Performance artist Kym Ward is, amongst other things, interested in how we can creatively, cheekily, reappropriate performance surplus and skills for our own ends in the contemporary workplace. Often working undercover, she tries to set up situations of exchange and mutual benefit by manipulating the social structures already in place. Rather than documenting these events directly, she feeds them through comedy, slapstick and the absurd to fictionalize events for an art audience, and protect spaces of activism and change. She calls this an affiliative ethics of perversity. 

At the moment, Ward is a researcher in residence at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in The Netherlands, conducting a sociological study into the aesthetics of household debt, and video-as-thinking.

Previous exhibitions include: Nothing could be slow enough, nothing last too long, TENT, Rotterdam, Is it art or is it just, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland, Act & Accomplish, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India and Wunderkammer, Franklin Furnace, New York.

Sommerakademie 2014
Opening/Nominators' Day
15. August 2014, Zentrum Paul Klee.
Video by David Röthlisberger