Jemima Yong (she/they) makes performance and photographs. 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.
Performance work include Marathon with JAMS: Alan Fielden, Malachy Orozco and Sophie Grodin which received the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2018 and was presented by Barbican Centre; ROOM, an intimate storytelling experience that only exists in the imagination and All About My Mother, a performance about grief, history and not wanting to become your parents. Jemima is in a collaborationship with Anahí Saravia Herrera with whom she’s developing a publishing-as-performance-practice.
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 and iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts).
Jemima’s photography has been featured on BBC News, Puppet Notebook and Time Out London, and published in Yorkshire Evening Post, The New York Times, 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.
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 at 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.
