Natalie King


Natalie King is a queer interdisciplinary Anishinaabe artist, facilitator and member of Timiskaming First Nation. King's arts practice ranges from video, painting, sculpture and installation as well as community engagement, curation and arts administration. King is currently a Programming Coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre in Tkaronto.

Often involving portrayals of queer femmes, King’s works are about embracing the ambiguity and multiplicities of identity within the Indigenous queer femme experience. King's practice operates from a firmly critical,anti-colonial, non-oppressive, and future-bound perspective, reclaiming the realities of lived lives through frameworks of desire and survivance.

Our conversation was recorded in Hamilton within Treaty 3 territory on the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations under the Dish With One Spoon wampum agreement.

Show Notes

Natalie’s work

@natalielauraking 

Georgian College Fine Arts 

OCAD Drawing and Painting 

Curtia Wright 

Mo Aura aka Mo Thunder 

Eighth Street Skatepark 

Come Up To My Room 2019 

Camp

*Sontag “Notes on Camp” 

Regalia 

Philip Ocampo 

Xpace Cultural Centre 

Hearth Garage

(Re)membering and (Re)imagining: the Joyous Star Peoples of Turtle Island  

*nerd bonus


Podcast Recommendation 

Sandy and Nora Episode 134 “Canadian Media Whites Again” 


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Audio editing for Hopping the Fence by Emily Reimer. Original artwork by Alex Gregory, and original music by Jessica Price Eisner.

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