Plenty of Fish

Performance and Audio Installation by James Knott. Plenty of Fish. Miracle Baby, Toronto, ON. February 2019. 

Curated by Shalon T Webber-Heffernan & hosted by Ella Tetrault at the experimental art space Miracle Baby in Oakwood Village, Toronto. Plenty of Fish explores the socio-sexual displacement of the queer femme body through allegorical retellings of the artist’s personal experience—dissecting the dichotomous relationship between the allure of desire and paranoia of shame, that is projected onto the queer femme body by admirers, detractors, and even internally by ourselves.

The performance finds the intersections between identifying as "The Girl from Ipanema" and Nina Simone's "The Other Woman".

The Curatorial Essay can be found here: Plenty of Fish