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Creative Entanglement Collaboratory

Artist in Residence Program

Meet Jordan King, our inaugural Artist in Residence.

“My work is generative, intersectional, and celebratory, expanding awareness of transgender existence through a distinctly trans-feminine lens.”

Introducing Sleep, a hybrid performance, installation, video.

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I utilized this residency opportunity to develop a new performance work, which debuted in fall 2025. Through dialogue with the Creative Entanglement Collaboratory team, I reflected on creating a new work that has the potential to focus on a combination of textural elements as well as facets of my identity I previously sought to shield when creating performance work. 

– Jordan King

Read more on Jordan’s experience creating Sleep with the CEC residency.
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Jordan King, portrait. Jordan sits in a striking pose staring down the camera in fabulous black heels.

Jordan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, performer, and writer, with her practice rooted in performance, archival research, and intergenerational dialogue. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at OCAD University in 2024 with a focus on documentary film and multimedia documentation of underground queer performance.    

Jordan spent her formative years immersed in nightlife culture, which continues to influence her work and research. Recent projects have included a curated exhibition of archival material at Toronto’s The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives, an oral history interview podcast series, short video works, and an autobiographical cabaret piece exploring trans performance and interactions between fiction and biography.

Jordan’s work is generative, intersectional, and celebratory, expanding awareness of transgender existence through a distinctly trans-feminine lens. She seeks to champion the necessity for nuanced understandings of the multi-faceted contemporary trans experience, drawing from extensive knowledge accessed through mentorship, intergenerational dialogue, and archival research.