“Merging art and activism, Johnson’s expansive work [draws] our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what has been here before and what could be in the future. She heightens our awareness . . .”
—The New York Times

Speculative Architecture of the OverFlow is a new exhibition / installation / performance / broadcast that emerges from Emily’s practice of creating large scale social choreographies. The exhibition share the culmination of a community sewing and visioning project that has generated 84 individual quilts, which form a single 4,000-square-foot design by Maggie Thompson. Along with these vibrant quilts and the hand-written messages they carry, the exhibition features activations and events, including a marathon storytelling performance titled OverFlow Radio, which broadcasts and streams a live radio show/performance over a non-consecutive 24-hour span. OverFlow Radio will feature a multitude of Indigenous collaborator-contributors whose readings, performances, skill shares, sound experiences, star stories, ghost stories and more are synched with interludes that offer time for meals, naps, participatory actions, and performance, for in-person and remote audiences alike.