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Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter

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

A monthly fire-side gathering on the Lower East Side in the amphitheater at Abrons Arts Center. Hosted by Emily Johnson/Catalyst.

Sit by the fire and welcome the evening with neighbors, stories, and food (bring some to share). The January fire includes readings by Nicole Wallace, Demian DinéYazhi', and Karyn Recollet. Pumpkin soup and cornbread generously prepared by Anne Apparu.

Gather and welcome.

January 9, 7pm, 466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Mannahatta, Lenapehoking

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Nicole Wallace is the Managing Director of The Poetry Project and author of WAASAMOWIN (IMP, October 2019). She is originally from Gakaabikaang, located in what is currently called Minnesota, and is of settler/European ancestry and a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe).

Demian DinéYazhi´ is a transdisciplinary Indigenous Diné Nádleehi´ artist, poet, and curator. In 2018 they self-published two books of poetry, ANCESTRAL MEMORY: poems 2009-2016, and AN INFECTED SUNSET. Demian’s stance as a self-publishing poet is a political statement of maintaining autonomy without the jurisdiction or approval from Western-trained editors, publishers, or critics. Demian also publishes zines and publications through R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. Follow Demian: @heterogeneoushomosexual + @RISEindigenous

Anne Apparu is a cook, guerrilla gardener, community builder, home maker and is dedicated to building sustainable ways in her locality. Anne generously created the feast for 2019 First Nations Dialogues' Tëmikèkw, An honoring and welcome gathering.

Karyn Recollet is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Women & Gender Studies Institute, and is a Cree woman originally from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan. Her research and writing explores Indigenous performance, hip-hop culture, and Indigenous hip hop feminism, with a particular focus on new Indigeneities produced in urban hub spaces as they shape solidarity movements and social activism. 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Emily Johnson gratefully acknowledges Karyn Recollet's work and collaboration in the concepts of kinstillatory.


Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter was created with funding from The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Emily Johnson/Catalyst gratefully acknowledges Amerinda and their fiscal sponsorship of this project.

photo by Rahim Fortune

Earlier Event: October 3
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Later Event: January 11
Kinstillatory Action with Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet
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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