Emily Johnson and Kai Recollet
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
March 6, 2025
6–8pm
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. Coming into its eighth year, this 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.
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Image by Andrew Federman
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About Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Methodology
Featured Artist: Nathan Young
Nathan Young (born 1975, Tahlequah, OK) is an artist, scholar, and curator working in an expanded practice that incorporates sound, video, documentary, animation, installation, socially engaged art, and experimental music. Young’s work often draws upon the spiritual and the political to complicate and subvert notions of the sublime. He co-founded the artists collective Postcommodity and holds an MFA in music/sound from Bard College’s Milton Avery School of the Arts. Young is a PhD candidate in the University of Oklahoma’s innovative Native American Art History Doctoral program where his scholarship is focused on Indigenous sonic agency. He is the founder and curator of The Intertribal Noise Symposium Series, Tulsa Noise, Tulsa Noisefest and the Peyote Tapes record label. Young’s work has been supported by The Native Arts + Culture Foundation, The Terra Foundation for the Arts, The Thoma Foundation, Creative Capital, The Tulsa Artist Fellowship, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation as well as the Tribeca Film Institute and the Sundance Institute. Young is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and is also a direct descendent of the Pawnee Nation and Kiowa Tribe. He formerly served as an elected member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians Tribal Council. He is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award.
Funding
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.