Jordan King
May 23 – 31, 2024
Factory Media Centre is thrilled to present Red Light / Night Life, a culminating exhibition from our April – May 2024 &NOW Artist-in-Residence Jordan King.
The work-in-progress multi-media performance explores the life of a single character meant to represent many possible lives, addressing emergence onstage in the world of nightlife, tumultuous love affairs, ultimately facing the reality of aging and mortality. The technical elements being explored while in residency at Factory Media Centre offers viewers a chance to experience a hybrid installation/performance which incorporates projection design and motion tracking technology. The piece includes movement, exploration of different characters, and immersive set design, created in collaboration with projection designer Nathan Bruce.
Red Light / Night Life was performed live at Factory Media Centre on May 5th, 2024. This exhibition presents a hybrid installation and edited recording of the performance for viewers to experience.
About the Artist
Jordan King has been active as a multi-disciplinary artist and performer for over twenty years in Vancouver, New York, and Toronto. Her formative years were spent as a stage performer immersed in nightlife; this included experimental live performance, cabaret, burlesque, and on-screen roles for film/video projects. Recent projects have included curation of gallery exhibitions in Montreal, acting as story editor for documentary film “The Empress of Vancouver” (2022), and performing with New York City based dance-theatre-media company thefeath3rtheory (2021). She seeks to create work which is generative, intersectional, and celebratory, honouring narratives of trans individuals while sharing from a distinctly trans-feminine lens. The work being presented during this residency was first staged in Summer 2023 in both Toronto and the Edmonton Fringe Festival, as a small-scale solo performance.
About the &NOW Production Residency & Scholarship
Factory Media Centre annually hosts our &NOW Production Residency & Scholarship (PR&S) program each winter. This is a valuable opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work, or continue a developing body of work. Selections are based on project originality, its potential for artistic growth, and the use and integration of FMC as a production location. Click here to learn more about our &NOW Residency Program.
About Factory Media Centre
Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region.