A Kinstillatory Conversation between Emily Johnson, Karyn Recollet, IV Castellanos and more

Celebrated for a distinguished body of work, Emily Johnson creates large scale performance gatherings that function as portals and care processions, engaging audienceship within and through space, time, and environment — interacting with a place’s architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures. Emily’s artistic practices center reworlding, Indigenous knowledge, and consensual collaborative processes that honour the sovereignty of communities, land and more-than-humxn kin. Build And Reworld Now is Emily’s newest land-based project, a space for reworlding — a Queer, Indigenous-led project for making, skill-sharing and rest, alongside public activations.

This Kinstillatory Conversation extends from the ongoing creative dialogue between Johnson and University of Toronto Assistant Professor Karyn Recollet, whose research spans urban Indigenous land relations, Indigenous performance, Decolonial aesthetics and Indigenous futurity. Johnson and Recollet will spend days and nights together at Build And Reworld Now in shared inquiry, joined by Catalyst’s Interkinnector IV Castellanos, and new generations of kin.

This culminating program invites students, faculty and the general public into their collective, ongoing, multi-generational dialogue—one that seeks to activate the capaciousness of Land Back movements to include and attend to the celestial.

Join us virtually for this special Kinstillatory conversation between Emily Johnson, Karyn Recollect and IV Castellanos on Monday, February 26, 2024 from 4 - 6 p.m. ET as part of New College's Artist in Residence Program.