Tickets
General Ticket: $25
Members: $20
Supported by The SHS Foundation in honor of Treasurer, Sara Throne
Have a seat on one of the many quilts that will be laid out in the main floor of The Church and join Emily Johnson as she weaves you into a movement- and sound-based performance that will envelop you in shared histories and experiences. A portal to a way forward through care and awareness, Johnson’s performance invites participants to redefine themselves within space-time, to join her in an act of “reworlding,” and to physically stitch together a work of art. Assisted by Korina Emmerich, Johnson invites audiences to contribute to the quilt squares, through stitching and/or adding their visions for the future.
A location-specific work, Johnson’s performance helps revitalize our integral connections to one another and awaken us to the threads that connect us via our environments, our stories, and our pasts, presents, and futures. This performance is an artwork featured in Eternal Testament, our current exhibition curated by Jeremy Dennis and Meranda Roberts; please find more information on the exhibition here.
Though most participants will be seated on the ground on quilts provided, there will be chairs available for those who prefer or need them.
EMILY JOHNSON
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Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Emily belongs to the Yup'ik Nation and is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty, and well-being. A Bessie award–winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking (New York City) and Haudenosaunee lands. Since 1998, Emily’s large-scale performance gatherings encourage thrivance, radical reworlding, and just futures. Her gatherings function as portals and care processions, engaging audienceships within and through space, time, environment —interacting with a place’s architecture, peoples, histories, and role-building futures. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life.
Emily hosts monthly fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Kai Recollet. Emily was the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council Diplomat at Santa Fe Opera from 2018 to 2020. She was a lead organizer of First Nations Dialogues, a member of Creative Time’s inaugural Think Tank, a co-compiler of the documents Creating New Future: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts and Notes for Equitable Funding, and is currently co-lead for First Nations Performing Arts.