Back to All Events

Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter

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

You are invited to the Kinstillatory Fire, the last of 2024.

Thursday, November 21, 6-8pm at Abrons Arts Center. 466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Lenapehoking.

You are invited to the Kinstillatory Fire, the last of 2024. An evening of radical listening to readings, dream sharing, and collective mourning. We come together with artists from Palestine and Lebanon to meditate on the loss we have been witnessing from afar and commune in our grief and our celebration of lives that resist erasure. With Raneem Ayyad, Leil Zahra Mortada, and Ibtisam Azem.

Curated by Tania El Khoury.

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.

Please join us.

Tania El Khoury is a live artist who creates interactive installations and performances that reflect on the production of collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity.

Raneem Ayyad is an architect, artist, and a researcher interested in the correlation between the built environment, socioeconomic histories, and health in Palestine and Jordan.

Leil Zahra Mortada is a transfeminist queer political organizer, multidisciplinary artist, and researcher from South Lebanon. Their video and sound work focus on decolonization, anarchism, oral history, abolition, and border violence.

Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian novelist, short story writer, and journalist based in New York. Her latest novel The Book of Disappearance has been translated into English, Italian, and German.

Earlier Event: November 20
Visiting Artist Lecture at Parsons | New School
Later Event: March 6
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.

Cart (0)