Jonah King


Jonah King is an interdisciplinary artist exploring human/nonhuman relations and speculative futures. Their multifaceted world-building create immersive experiences to examine how ecological intimacies influence individual and social identity.

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Jonah King
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Web Project

2020

Tongue The Sun draws attention to the materiality of our body’s ecosystem via an online web project comprising an interactive digital sculpture, live avatar essay reading, and NFT set.

Supported by the Irish Arts Council COVID Response award, this project aims to reach a public under lockdown, when our biology, in all its fragility, has taken priority over global trade, party-politics, and identity divisions that characterize our time. By reinterpreting how evolutionary forces undermine stability in modern life, this project invites us to consider the world through a lens that disrupts heteronormative categorisations, redefining organisms, species, and individuals’ value and identity classifications.

Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland  / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and NCAD Gallery. 

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Tongue The Sun: Unfathomable Intimacies (performance)

Mocap Livestream Performance Reading

2020

Tongue The Sun draws attention to the materiality of our body’s ecosystem via an online web project comprising an interactive digital sculpture, live avatar essay reading, and NFT set.

Supported by the Irish Arts Council COVID Response award, this project aims to reach a public under lockdown, when our biology, in all its fragility, has taken priority over global trade, party-politics, and identity divisions that characterize our time. By reinterpreting how evolutionary forces undermine stability in modern life, this project invites us to consider the world through a lens that disrupts heteronormative categorisations, redefining organisms, species, and individuals’ value and identity classifications.

Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland  / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and NCAD Gallery. 

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Unfathomable Intimacies

Essay

2020

Every egg a person carries forms inside their ovaries while they are still in the womb of their mother. In that way, my mother was once inside my great-grandmother’s womb, and I spent time in the womb of my grandmother. My grandmother is fast asleep right now, in the creaking bed that she was born in. Her giant black collie dog is snoring on the floor beside her....

This text forms the basis of Honey Fungus and Tongue the Sun

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