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Whale Story at Kintecoying Now

  • 4th Street Open Street Bowery and 2nd Avenue New York, NY United States (map)

Projections from Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, Razelle Benally, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Laura Ortman, Mato Wayuhi, Korina Emmerich, Emily Johnson & Jeffrey Gibson, curated by Relative Arts.

“Kintecoying Now” is a series of free public arts events to be held in two plazas at Bowery and East 4th Streets.  This site and the area of Astor Place, according to modern day sources, was originally known as Kintecoying (“Crossroads of Nations”) and served as a place for meeting, trade, diplomacy, and games by Munsee Lenape, Canarsie, Sapohannikan, Manhattan, and other Nations.

“Kintecoying Now” is intended to activate the site with work by Indigenous/Native American artists, artisans, and culture bearers in order to honor and recognize its history.

Whale Story is a method of paying attention to another scale, another form, another knowledge.

Written and performed by Emily Johnson
Edited and filmed by IV Castellanos on Haudenosaunee lands

Created with support from Aywaa Storyhouse.

Earlier Event: October 3
KINSTILLATORY MAPPINGS IN LIGHT AND DARK MATTER
Later Event: October 5
A Place to Gather Ideas: Keynote Performance at De/Composition Conference
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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