JEMIMA YONG

Jemima Yong (she/they) is a performance maker and photographer. She is Sarawakian, born in Singapore and has developed her artistic practice in London, United Kingdom, where she is currently based. Uninterested in creating anything she can imagine on her own, Jemima works exclusively in collaboration with others. 

Recent performance work include a Something In Your Voice with Emergency Chorus and Marathon with JAMS: Alan Fielden, Malachy Orozco and Sophie Grodin. Marathon received the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2018 and was presented by Barbican Centre in September 2018. Jemima also performs ROOM, an intimate storytelling experience that only exists in the imagination and in 2016 led on the project All About My Mother, a performance about grief, history and becoming your parents.

As a cultural worker, she was previously executive producer at National Art Service. In 2012, she was festival coordinator at MTN BUSHFIRE: Swaziland's International Festival of the Arts (Swaziland, Southern Africa). She has also worked in Communications at the Barbican Centre, Clod Ensemble and iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts).

Jemima’s photography has been published in BBC News, Puppet Notebook, Yorkshire Evening Post, The Times newspaper, Time Out London, The Guardian, The Straits Times and the Swazi Observer. Photographs from her series Field (2020) have been acquired by the Museum of London and published by Hoxton Mini Press in the book London in Lockdown

Jemima is a visiting lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London), Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds) and has also taught at Middlesex University (London). She is an associate artist at Forest Fringe and is one fifth of DARC (Documentation Action Research Collective)

In 2017, she trained at the Curious School of Puppetry under the expertise of practitioners including Sarah Wright, Rene Baker and Mike Shepherd. As of 2022, she is a producer and trustee on the board of the school. 

Jemima is an alumnus of the Clore Leadership Pulse course which she received a bursary to attend in the autumn of 2021. 

Image above: Jemima in a computer. 公公 (Kung Kung - grandpa) in real life. Dad behind the camera.

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