In collaboration and kinship for over a decade, IV Castellanos and Hiroshi Shafer are two makers curious about methods, materials, tooling, and objects.Their collaboration is in making, building, repairing, and creating. After their very popular hands-on skill-share during the June Kinstillatory, IV and Hiroshi are offering a second round of construction / deconstruction for us on November 6th, meant to empower a person toward independence and inspire the actions needed to make the world one envisioned. Utilizing wood, saws, dust, drills, and nails, we will collectively work together to make objects for the everyday. A practical reminder that we Can, we Will, we Do. IV and Hiroshi feel lucky when audiences are excited and jump in to learn new skills.
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IV Castellanos is a Mx Indigenous Bolivian/American, an abstract performance artist, sculptor, land defender and water protector in training. Their practice prioritizes skill sharing and creating space for Queer, Trans* and diasporic Indigenous communities and people of color. They create stand-alone sculptures, wall works installations, wearables, and objects for performance. Their studio practice involves a convergence of techniques to create sculptures that highlight labor and effort as meaningful actions. They received the Braiding Seeds Fellowship (2023), an IndieSpace grant (2023), City Arts Corps grant (2021), Franklin Furnace Fund grant (2019), The manage the Land Back Hub Brooklyn for artists and activists along with Build And Reworld Now, in collaboration with choreographer/multidisciplinary artist Emily Johnson of the Yup'ik Nation, which is a space to make, rest, and reflect, situated on Haudenosaunee lands. Continuous projects include the Performance Art Delivery Service and editing books to the correct pronouns of the reader as ongoing forms of resistance and care.
Hiroshi Shafer is an independent artist and co-founder of Little Lighting Gallery.
ABOUT KINSTILLATORY MAPPINGS IN LIGHT AND DARK MATTER
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. In its eighth year, this fall 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.