Young Joon Kwak (they/them and she/her) is a LA-based multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work spans sculpture, performance, music, video, and community-based collaborations—generating new forms of queer and trans intimacy and utopian futurity, and bridging communities across a wide variety of socio-cultural, institutional, and alternative art contexts. Through sculptural manipulations of the form, functionality, and materiality of objects, they question common modes of perception and bodily objectification, while posing alternative ways of viewing bodies “beyond the skin.” Kwak is the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving beauty salon/platform for collaborative performances and installations with their community of queer, trans, femme, POC artists and performers. They are lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner.