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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Immersive
Lecture/Workshop
Performance
Sculpture
Web
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Jonah King
Projects:

Honey Fungus: WebVR

WebVR

2022

A Social VR interpretation of Honey Fungus created by RealMix 0.2 - Art in Escadão.

This is a virtual event of the District Institute of the Arts - Idartes organized by its Line of Art, Science and Technology and by the Planetarium of Bogotá, which aims to recognize and encourage technological creation and experimentation through projects of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Realities (MX).

Supported by Hyphen-Hub, Newrona, Planetarium of Bogotá, Idartes.

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Screen capture of WebVR.

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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Leisure Sports: HistoryOf.Golf

Website

2020

HistoryOf.Golf is a web project containing video, sound and text. (...) A video embed contains the film How The West Was Won (2018). An audio button triggers a sound recording of the two men simply exchange dad jokes to one another. Scroll down to view an epic timeline that contextualizes climate change, westward expansion, colonialism, politics, and even the creation of the artwork through the chronology of golf.

Also inside HistoryOf.Golf is an option to purchase a limited edition wearable artwork - M.D.F.A. Hat. The slogan “MAKE DESERT FOREST AGAIN”, on dark green fabric, subverts the infamous Trump slogan to campaign to “green the desert”, a geoengineering solution to climate collapse. 

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