Making Kin

sculptural performance and the live moment

Making Kin Live at Atlanta Beltline Market @Allene, presented by Atlanta Beltline Art in collaboration with glo, as vocalist Monique Osorio, choreographer lauri stallings, and musician Kebbi Williams gather alongside an ensemble of artists comprised of The Atlanta Improvisors Orchestra Choir and glo for a people processional live art work that explores the poetics of intimacy, social touch, and the weight of shared physical spaces.

While the live art 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, the project carries these embodied choreography systems and sound scores through a pedestrian flow across .8 miles of the Beltline Westside Trail. Rooted in Atlanta, the city where the project was conceived in spring 2025, these people processions create an opportunity for the community to participate physically, spiritually, and viscerally, coming and going as you like. Named 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.

Beltline will have two waterstations along the 65 – minute procession, beginning and ending at Atlanta Beltline Market @Allene. There are no tickets required as the public art work is free and public to all. Should you need assistance in attending, please reach out to glo directly.

The 2026 Atlanta Beltline Art exhibition 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. 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.

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Making Kin
a glo production

Concept: glo by lauri stallings

Creative team: Monique Osorio, lauri stallings, and Kebbi Williams

Compiled source materials: Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016); American artist Lonnie Holley’s album, Keeping a Record of it (2013)

Performers
Al-Yasha Williams
Duffy
Jolynn Sockwell
Kebbi Williams
Majid Araim
Mary Jane Pennington
Monique Osorio
Nathaniel Allen
Priscilla Smith
Ray
Zandia Covington

Fashion
Maggie Ann Phillips

Project Manager
Richard Carvlin