katie robinson
writer - facilitator - artist
(some) Writing & Art
I have an essay in this brilliant book called "Here's How I Let Them Come Close." I write about fear, entanglement, extraterrestials, and the visitations from the more-than-human that fuel our creative pursuits. I'm really proud of this essay - and have so so much more to say, and to learn.
This anthology features writers of the Queer Voices reading series, which has been supporting "queer lives and the writers living them" for over 30 years. I have a poem in here called "The Biggest Fish I Follow Follow Ghosts". Its an honor be a part of this book, and community. If you are queer I highly recommend checking out their saturday writing circles.
I made this piece, "witnesses; what brought us here", in 2017. It traveled to various places before being featured in Burn Something Collective's public art exhibition in 2020. It is an attempt to be with death/birth horrors of the middle passage, and to honor the agency and soverveignty of each ancestor who experienced it.
This is a video art piece I made called "dark plants" where I experiment with the self, playing with the possibilities between and beyond existing & not existing, between and beyond 1 & 0, between and beyond the singular & the void. It was featured in Gamut Gallery's annual Call-4-Work (C4W) exhibition in 2021.
This mural project, Star Kin, was collaboration with LM Brimmer, Hayden Minh, and Tori Hong. It was comissioned by a St. Paul family during the summer of 2020 after having some scary experiences. I helped paint and wrote the affirmations.
These images are from a one-night experiential and experimental performance devised in honor of the publishing of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' M Archive: After the End of the World. Adrienne Doyle and I created a ritual to accompany and portray the texts' "Archive of Ocean."
Sweetness of Wild is a creation of Free Black Dirt, and is "a coming-of-age poetic film series based in Black Minneapolis." Storylines of different characters intersect and portray the breadth of an artsy, midwestern, queer, activist Blackness in the wake of BLM and in the legacy of Prince.
