Kinstillatory Mappings

September 16—October 31, 2021

This conversation was recorded remotely via Zoom on November 13, 2020, as part of a Pillow Lab Residency at Jacob’s Pillow.

Emily Johnson, Storyteller
Karyn Recollet, Storyteller
Joseph M. Pierce, Storyteller
Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Score
Joseph M. Pierce, Direction and Editing 

The participants are members of Being Future Being's BRANCH of SCHOLARSHIP, additional members include Dylan Robinson and Camille Usher. The process of creating Being Future Being is supported by gatherings of experts in four BRANCHES: SCHOLARSHIP, KNOWLEDGE, MAKING and ACTION: Architecture of the Overflow. These BRANCHES serve to guide relational frameworks, form foundations, learnings, possibilities, and intersections available in this work, steward its values and impact, and share in accountability and action. Together, we create this future for/with generations to come.

Thank you to the stars, the rivers, the atmospherics, the people, the ancestors, the trees, the breath. Thank you to STTLMNT for allowing us to share these thoughts with others, in good 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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