Wave Farm + Kinstillatory Fire at the Abrons Art Center

May 21, 2026: 6pm- 8pm
Abrons Art Center

466 Grand St. | Manhattan, NY | 212-352-3101

Please be invited to an evening of collaborative and improvisatory radio making with Wave Farm Co-Directors Bianca Felix Biberaj and Meredith Kooi, alongside the Kinstillatory Fire on Thursday May 21st, 6-8pm, outside at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, Mannahatta, in Lenapehoking!

In small groups, we will create sound works for FM broadcast using microtransmitters. Our evening will culminate in a live group performance for radio.

Participants are encouraged to bring sound recordings that respond to any or all of the following prompts:

  • The sounds outside your window
  • A place in your neighborhood that you spend time in/li>
  • A voice that brings you joy/li>
  • Your nearest body of water / water source/li>
  • Cooking or eating sounds from a recent meal/li>

    And if you've got one, bring a battery-powered radio receiver!

    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.

    The fire is central. We invite you to GATHER HERE as we articulate our collective futures, our care for one another, our otherwise possibilities.

    In their ninth year, these kinstillatory fires center anti-colonial Indigenous, feminist, and gender-expansive care ethics and practices. Hosted, held, and lightly curated by Johnson and Recollet, along with invited guests and community partners.