Recent Coverage
CBC Arts “
The artists who work in literal dumps and the places that pay them to do it”
Article by Leah Collins. CBC Arts. August 23, 2019.
“Oh, they love trash! What happens when you give artists the key to the city sanitation department?”
Banff Centre
In 2015, I attended the Banff Research in Culture Residency where a group of artists and scholars gathered around the topic of “Demos: Life in Common”. While there, I had a chance to share some of my thoughts on sensory ethnography and the video project I was working on.
Multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and researcher Jp King creates non-narrative, non-verbal films in a style called "sensory ethnography." His focus for this project, "The Death of Everyday Objects," is on the clutter, garbage and waste that accumulates in all our lives.
AkimboTV: Artland
In this interview with Andrea Carson Baker, I discussed a wide range of projects that I was working on in the summer of 2016.
Join Host Andrea Carson Barker as she visits JP King at Paper Pusher, his Toronto-based experimental publication laboratory that focuses on the Risograph printing method. We learn why King is enamoured with this obsolete printing process and gain insight into the entrepreneurial spirit behind the creation of both successful commercial products and artistic collaborations that delve deep into the underpinnings of consumerist and discard culture.
OCAD Profile
I hold an MFA (2015) from OCAD University. In this graduate student video profile, I share the projects and research that I focused on.
This series highlights recent alumni and current students of the Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (IAMD) graduate program at OCAD University. JP King is a Toronto-based transdisciplinary media artist and scholar, whose practice-led research examines material culture, social engagement, contemporary mythology, masculinity and speculative futures.