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Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter

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Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter

With Nathan Young

Thursday, March 6, 6-8pm
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Lenapehoking

Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is an ongoing collaboration between choreographer, writer, and organizer Emily Johnson and scholar, artist, and writer Kai Recollet. Coming into its eighth year, this season’s Kinstillatory fires organize us around extended time—with one another, with sound, provocation, action.

These kinstillatory fires centering anti-colonial Indigenous, feminist, and gender-expansive care ethics and practices are hosted, held, and lightly curated by Johnson and Recollet, along with invited guests and community partners. The fire is central and communities are invited to GATHER HERE as we articulate our collective futures, our otherwise possibilities. It is a place to bring practices, grammars, and needs forward and through the portals that fire allows. The fire itself is process, a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now and into the kinstillatory that is care, that is necessary. A provocation, and an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness.

This season, gestures toward our abundant futures guide the thinking as we gather toward necessary making, skill-sharing, body, and land/attention with artists Nathan Young, Marcela Torres, Maria Bauman, and IV Castellanos.

Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter will take place outside at Abrons Arts Center, located at466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Lenapehoking. The fire gatherings are free and open to all.

About Nathan Young
Nathan Young (born 1975, Tahlequah, OK) is an artist, scholar, and curator working in an expanded practice that incorporates sound, video, documentary, animation, installation, socially engaged art, and experimental music. Young’s work often draws upon the spiritual and the political to complicate and subvert notions of the sublime. He co-founded the artists collective Postcommodity and holds an MFA in music/sound from Bard College’s Milton Avery School of the Arts. Young is a PhD candidate in the University of Oklahoma’s innovative Native American Art History Doctoral program where his scholarship is focused on Indigenous sonic agency. He is the founder and curator of The Intertribal Noise Symposium Series, Tulsa Noise, Tulsa Noisefest and the Peyote Tapes record label. Young’s work has been supported by The Native Arts + Culture Foundation, The Terra Foundation for the Arts, The Thoma Foundation, Creative Capital, The Tulsa Artist Fellowship, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation as well as the Tribeca Film Institute and the Sundance Institute. Young is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and is also a direct descendent of the Pawnee Nation and Kiowa Tribe.

Earlier Event: February 1
Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always
Later Event: April 17
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
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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