James Knott is a Toronto-based artist and graduate of OCAD University. Their practice spans performance, music, and moving images, employing tactics of self-mythologizing as a means to bridge personal narratives into communal ones. Lately their work has oscillated between more gesturally based performance actions, to highly ornate and layered video compositions and music, to explore themes of queer and trans identity, and how gendered archetypes can interrogate the politics of desire. An alumnus of The Roundtable Residency and the Buddies In Bad Times Emerging Creators Unit, they’ve exhibited/performed at Xpace Cultural Centre, Trinity Square Video, the Toronto Feminist Art Conference, FADO Performance Art Centre, the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Montreal’s Festival Phénomena, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
