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KINSTILLATORY MAPPINGS IN LIGHT AND DARK MATTER

  • Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street New York, NY, 10002 United States (map)

Join us on Thursday October 3rd, 6-8pm at Abrons Arts Center for a fire curated by Yanira Castro with artists Marcela Torres, Kristel Baldoz, and Ayano Elson.


Always thrilled to open this space of the otherwise. A site for furthering, for participation, a night to prepare for: steady self, ready community, forms to incite wonder. We are so thankful to Marcela, Kristel, Ayano, Yanira, and are reminded of the understory - what grows beneath the trees.


Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is an ongoing project of Emily Johnson and Kai Recollet. 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.

Earlier Event: September 22
Creative Time Summit: "This looks legal" Scaling the Decolonization Rider
Later Event: October 3
Whale Story at Kintecoying Now
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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