A series featuring work by Indigenous/Native American artists, artisans, and culture bearers in order to honor and recognize the area’s history as a ‘Crossroads of Nations’. The Kintecoying Now series launched in Spring 2024 at Cooper Plaza.
Fall 2024 Partner Organizations: CultureHub, Safe Harbors NYC, Relative Arts
DATES: FALL 2024
Thursday September 12th, 6pm-9pm
4th Street Open Street (Bowery & 2nd Ave)
6pm: Afro-Amerindian music performance by Jarana Beat
7:30pm: Projections from Timothy White Eagle, Bobby Joe Smith III, DB Amorin, Samuel St-Onge and more, curated by CultureHub and Safe Harbors NYC.
Thursday September 26th, 5:45pm-9pm
4th Street Open Street (Bowery & 2nd Ave)
5:45pm: Music performance and presentation by Jose Obando: “Maraca & Guiro: Two Taino instruments in the 21st Century”
7:15pm: Projections curated by CultureHub and Safe Harbors NYC
Thursday October 3rd, 6:45pm-9pm
4th Street Open Street (Bowery & 2nd Ave)
Presentation curated by Relative Arts
Timothy White Eagle is an artist of Indigenous and European heritage. He creates ritual theater, merging personal narrative and mythology while exploring contemporary issues and ancestral memory in search of ritualized healing. He tours internationally as a performance and visual artist, most recently with The Indigo Room, which premiered in NYC and Seattle, then in the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival. A 2019 Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad recipient, he has since been supported by residencies at Guild Hall, On The Boards, Town Hall, PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab, and La Mama Etc NYC. He has received grant support from the Public Theatre, Seattle Office of Arts, 4 Culture, and the MAP Fund Award 2023, among others. Timothy collaborated with and toured internationally with MacArthur Genius Taylor Mac on his Pulitzer Prize finalist “A 24 Decade History…” and “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce.” His newest production, Indian School, premiers in Seattle in the Fall of 2024 at On the Boards, Seattle.
DB Amorin (b. Honolulu, Hawai’i) is an interdisciplinary media artist who explores audio-visual non-linearity as a container for intersectional experience. He frequently emphasizes the generative role of error as an opportunity for creation, resulting in media-centered projects driven by DIY methodologies, lo-fi translations, and persistent, inquisitive experimentation with available materials. His visual art, performances, curatorial & collaborative programming have been presented internationally at A4 Arts Foundation; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival; Onassis Foundation; ICA at MECA&D; Luggage Store Gallery; Soundwave ((7)) Biennial; PICA; Portland Art Museum; the Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu Biennial 2019.
Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Indigenous graphic designer and media artist living in Los Angeles, California. His creative practice is an act of poetic discourse on how to approach art and design to further anti-colonial movements and achieve decolonial outcomes. He studied graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Post-Bacc) and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA), and received an MFA in Media Art from the University of California—Los Angeles.
Samuel St-Onge comes from the community of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam. He is a multidisciplinary artist skilled in theater, music, painting, writing, and video production. His creative journey began in at the age of 16, when he was trained to do video editing and camera work. He spent years as a camera operator for InnuwebTV, capturing a wide range of community events. He also worked with La Boite Rouge Vif, where his footage was showcased in various museums.
He directed a short film, Desjouer le temps, with La wapikoni and had the honor of appearing in the film Kuessipan, which deepened his passion for the movie industry. Currently, he supports his band, Council, as a tech specialist, while continuing to explore new creative ventures.
ABOUT KINTECOYING NOW
Manhattan has always been a gathering and trading place for many Indigenous peoples, where Nations intersected from all four directions since time immemorial. It was a place to gather and sometimes to seek refuge during times of conflict and struggle. We pay respect to all of their ancestors past, present, to their future generations. We acknowledge that our work is situated on the island of Manhattan (Menohhannet – On the Island) traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape, the Canarsie, Unkechaug, Matinecock, Shinnecock, Reckgawanc and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. We respect that many Indigenous people continue to live and work on this island and acknowledge their ongoing contributions to this area.
This Fall series continues from our Kintecoying Now Spring series with afternoon outdoor programming on Cooper Plaza, including performances, workshops, and a market. More information can be found here.
Kintecoying Now is made possible through funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Graphic features artworks by Bobby Joe Smith, Steven Miller, Adrain Chesser & Timothy White Eagle.