TALKING WITH ARTISTS BRIDGE TV INTERVIEW: KP of Black Belt Eagle Scout at Pitchfork 2023

Written By Michael Workman

KP of Black Belt Eagle Scout. Image courtesy the artist, Pitchfork 2023. Photo by Nate Lemuel.

Talking With Artists is a new original series produced for Bridge TV, hosting discussions with artists in all disciplines. Most episodes of the current season of the series are currently available for viewing now in the Bridge Video collection (subscription required). New episodes are added throughout each season.

TALKING WITH ARTISTS
BRIDGE TV INTERVIEW By KP, Black Belt Eagle Scout

By Michael Workman

ABOUT KP
KP (Katherine Paul) is a Swinomish/Iñupiaq singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, Oregon. Her music is influenced by post-rock, alternative rock, and Native American traditional music. She has released an EP and two albums under the moniker Black Belt Eagle Scout. Her self-titled EP as Black Belt Eagle Scout was released in June 2014. Her debut studio album, Mother of My Children, was first released by Portland tape label Good Cheer Records in 2017, then re-released in September 2018 by Saddle Creek Records. On April 26, 2019, Saddle Creek released a new Black Belt Eagle Scout single titled "Loss & Relax" on a seven-inch vinyl backed with b-side track titled "Half Colored Hair.”

KP of Black Belt Eagle Scout. Image courtesy the artist, Pitchfork 2023. Photo by Nate Lemuel.

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Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

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