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APAP: Artist Salon

  • New York Live Arts 219 W 19th Street New York, NY 10011 US (map)

Artist Salon Presentation with

EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST: BEING FUTURE BEING

SUNDAY, JANUARY 15
11:30 am eastern

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
219 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011

PLEASE NOTE THAT FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT

Emily Johnson / Catalyst invites you to learn more about our newest touring project and process Being Future Being, which delves into the power of creation to build a visual, aural, and ancestral landscape of Indigenous power. Featuring an original score by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Raven Chacon and a stellar cast, Being Future Being is a multiscalar performance and a starting point for relationship. By (re)building new visions of the forces that brought this world into being, the work becomes a site for transformation, ushering into focus new futures with the potential to reshape the way we relate to ourselves, our environment, and to the human and more-than-human cohabitants of our world. 

Emily notes, “Being Future Being asks audiences to join in Indigenous-led community processes that move from each presentation out into the world in what I call the Speculative Architecture of the Overflow, with actions that directly support local rematriative, protection, and Land Back efforts in ways that foster Indigenous kinship, accomplices, and audience relationships." We will also share updates on our kinstillatory network of collaborators—Catalyst's four Branches of Making, Scholarship, Knowledge and Action—who guide the frameworks of our work and steward its values. 

In addition to ours, this shared program includes presentations by Milka Djordjevich, Miguel Gutierrez and Abby Zbikowski.

FREE, RSVPs Encouraged
https://newyorklivearts.org/event/artist-salon/

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Catalyst programs are made possible in part with generous funding from Dance/NYC, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mellon Foundation and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Source:: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/artist-salon/
Earlier Event: November 15
Kinstillatory Mappings In Light And Dark Matter: SJ Norman and Razelle Benally
Later Event: March 11
Conflicting Relations
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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