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Kinstillatory Mappings In Light And Dark Matter

  • Abrons Art Center 466 Grand St New York, NY 10002 US (map)

You are invited to Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter, a fireside gathering - Thursday, July 20th, 6-8pm at Abrons Arts Center. With incredible artists Yanira Castro, devynn emory, and Kevin Holden.

Yanira will share elements of I came here to weep - a multimodal, interactive project enacted by the public and made up of participatory scores with corresponding materials and environments that examines U.S. territorial possession. Following a speculative space created by Yanira’s Weep we will be guided through devynn emory’s performance, Un Sacude.

And as a matter of celebration, this fire will be Kevin Holden’s first time performing solo in Lenapehoking!! They will be playing a set of ambient music and want you to feel free to be present in the space in the way you feel best supports your needs and experience of the music.

Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is hosted, held, and lightly curated by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet. The fire is central and communities are invited to GATHER HERE as artists and organizers articulate our collective futures, our otherwise possibilities. Fireside, we bring practices, grammars and needs forward and through the portals fire allows. 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.

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Yanira Castro's work is rooted in communal construction as a rehearsal for radical democracy. She is an interdisciplinary artist born in Borikén (Puerto Rico), living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn), and working at the intersection of communal practices, performance, installation, and interactive technology. Yanira forms iterative, multimodal projects that center the complexity of land, citizenship, and governance in works activated and performed by the public. She is the recipient of two Bessie Awards for Outstanding Production, and various commissions, residencies, and national grant awards. Since 2009, she’s collaborated with a team of artists as a canary torsi. acanarytorsi.org

Kevin Holden is a Diné artist and composer, born to the Kinyaa'áanii clan. They currently live and work on the confluence of multiple territories, including the Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Clackamas, Multnomah, and Cowlitz peoples; the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. They’ve performed solo at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Yale Union, and S1; and exhibited sound-based work at Variform Gallery, c3:initiative, ADX, and First Brick. With Demian DinéYazhi’, they’ve performed SHATTER/// An Extractive Performance at Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe; Performance Space New York, and Oregon Contemporary. They’re professionally affiliated with Emily Johnson / Catalyst.

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Catalyst programs are made possible in part with generous funding from Dance/NYC, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mellon Foundation and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Earlier Event: May 11
Kinstillatory Mappings In Light And Dark Matter
Later Event: July 22
Being Future Being: Land / Celestial at Bard College
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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