You’re invited to the May 16 Kinstillatory Fire, curated by Relative Arts ✨ Join us alongside the sound, poetry and performace of artists Somah Haaland @coffeequeer , Rosa Bordallo @whoismanett , Mobēy Lola Irizarry @lola.machine , and DJ Leelander lelandparkerr ✨ This fire creates kin. These artists are Future making.✨
Thursday May 16th, 6-8pm outside at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Lenapehoking.
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is hosted, held, and lightly curated by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet. The fire is central and communities are invited to GATHER HERE as artists and organizers articulate our collective futures, our otherwise possibilities. Fireside, we bring practices, grammars and needs forward and through the portals fire allows. The fire itself is process, a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now. A lot is happening in the time/space envelope of the kinstillatory that is care, that is necessary. This is a practice of provocating. This is an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness.
Relative Arts is a new brick-and-mortar community space, open atelier, and shop displaying contemporary Indigenous fashion and design. Our mission is to provide a peer-run space in New York City to celebrate the advancement of Indigenous futurism in fashion through representation and education. We are Indigenous owned and operated by Korina Emmerich (Puyallup) and Liana Shewey (Mvskoke).
Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer cultural worker, composer, painter, poet, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and transdisciplinary performance artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid. Lola is the creative director and percussion section leader for Las Mariquitas, NYC’s Queer and Trans Salsa band. They play in the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery, in the Latin Rock group AVATAREDEN, and are a part of the music composition team for Samora La Perdida’s “Spanglish Sh!t” musical. Their work has been performed at Lincoln Center, the Denver Art Museum, and with the New York Theatre Ballet. Lola is quoted in Rolling Stone saying “I want to abolish patriarchy in Salsa… this is a duty to our lineage.”
Rosa Bordallo is a singer-songwriter and native Chamorro (CHamoru) from the island of Guam (Guåhan), an American colony in the Mariåna Islands. She now in lives in Lenapehoking where she has recorded several albums and EP’s under the moniker Manett and as a member of the rock band, cholo. Her music can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp. Her sophomore solo album, Isidro, will be released through Bad Auntie Records in July 2024.
Somah Toya Haaland (they/she) is a queer interdisciplinary artist and community organizer from the Pueblos of Laguna and Jemez in so-called New Mexico. They are passionate about radical healing, climate justice, trans rights, and empowering youth. Somah is a Media Organizer with Pueblo Action Alliance as well as a film & theater maker. This is their fourth year living as a guest in Lenapehoking.
Leland is Onöndowa'ga:' a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and is currently a student at The New School majoring in Culture & Media. During his time in school, he has developed a passion for DJ'ing and Mixing. Known as leelander behind the decks you can expect a blend of current tracks mixed through house-created beats, that work together to create a dancy and upbeat set.
Presented with support from the Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts – Community Projects program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.