Emily Johnson and Kai Recollet
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
May 22, 2025
6–8pm
Join us for a ceremonial fire centering Indigenous protocol and knowledge. Guest artists and organizers share stories and performances in honor and protection of the land, water, and air of Lenapehoking, the homelands of the Lenapeyok, where Abrons Arts Center is located.
May's Kinstillatory will feature artist Maria Bauman.
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.
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Image by Andrew Federman
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About Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Methodology
Featured Artist: Maria Bauman
Maria Bauman (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer from Jacksonville, FL, now based in Brooklyn, NY. Bauman makes bold and honest artworks for her company, MBDance, based on physical and emotional power, insistence on equity, and experiments with intimacy. She is also co-founder of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity) and a core trainer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Bauman has recently been recognized for choreography and dancing with two Bessie Awards, an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellowship, and two Maggie Allessee National Choreographic Center residencies. She is currently the 2024-25 Alvin Ailey Artist-in-Residence, a Mertz-Gilmore/NYFA dance award recipient, and the Queer Art Exchange Network ambassador artist on behalf of BAAD!
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.