The Shining Mantis - Kangarok
2010-2011 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
The Shining Mantis is a Brooklyn-based collaboration of Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion. The primary works done by the duo are the legendary battle drawings known simply as Kangarok: a fusion of the unnamable presence of the Mephistophelic Kangaroo, and Ragnarok, the Nordic apocalypse.
Their work is about antagonistic collaboration: battle drawings. They fight each other through spontaneous bursts of imagination. Normally The Shining Mantis has done this on a large scale, with chalk on walls. They are currently interested in exploring how a collaborative battle drawing can be brought to play in book form and are engaging in this exploration while in residence on Governors Island.
