gloATL's Making Kin
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Making Kin is a people-processional live-art project created by vocalist Monique Osorio, choreographer Lauri Stallings, and musician Kebbi Williams. It explores the poetics of intimacy, social touch, and the weight of shared physical spaces through sculptural performance and the live moment. The work activates American artist Lonnie Holley’s album, “Keeping a Record of It” (2016) as a site to extend from the past to create a portal to new perspectives, community, and what’s left behind. It travels down the Southwest Trail to the Lee St. Bridge before looping back.
A cast of artists from Atlanta Improviser Orchestra Choir and gloATL will perform move, chant, and feel alongside elements of the natural world, inviting us to observe how we resemble, influence, and attune to one another. Named for Donna Haraway’s 2016 book, Making Kin in the Chthulucene, earth (chthulu) and new kind (cene) is the act of not being able to think of ourselves as disconnected from the rest of life on earth. It’s also referred to as “staying with the trouble,” as spoken by the late Georgia warrior John Lewis.
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Making Kin is made possible with support of a LAB Residency, High Museum of Art. Making Kin is made possible with support of Winston Taylor and Beloved Community Inc, and Dorian McDuffie, Office of Design, City of Atlanta. This project is made possible with residency support of the Goat Farm.
The 2026 Atlanta Beltline Art exhibition and programming is sponsored by Delta Air Lines at the Gold level; Northside Hospital and Ponce City Market at the Silver level.
This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and funding from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
A cast of artists from Atlanta Improviser Orchestra Choir and gloATL will perform move, chant, and feel alongside elements of the natural world, inviting us to observe how we resemble, influence, and attune to one another. Named for Donna Haraway’s 2016 book, Making Kin in the Chthulucene, earth (chthulu) and new kind (cene) is the act of not being able to think of ourselves as disconnected from the rest of life on earth. It’s also referred to as “staying with the trouble,” as spoken by the late Georgia warrior John Lewis.
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Making Kin is made possible with support of a LAB Residency, High Museum of Art. Making Kin is made possible with support of Winston Taylor and Beloved Community Inc, and Dorian McDuffie, Office of Design, City of Atlanta. This project is made possible with residency support of the Goat Farm.
The 2026 Atlanta Beltline Art exhibition and programming is sponsored by Delta Air Lines at the Gold level; Northside Hospital and Ponce City Market at the Silver level.
This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and funding from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
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Where is it happening?
Atlanta Beltline Marketplace @ Allene, 1089 Allene Ave SW, Atlanta, GA 30310-3440, United States
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