Colin Tucker
@colintuckerstudio.bsky.social
Artist & writer. Experimental music & contemporary art. Critical excavation of whiteness and coloniality/-ism in concert music and territorial politics.
Website: colintucker.studio
Settler in Tkaronto/Toronto - Dish with One Spoon Treaty Territory
Website: colintucker.studio
Settler in Tkaronto/Toronto - Dish with One Spoon Treaty Territory
Re: the Boulez anniversary: "This article examines the lessons that Pierre Boulez learned about sound from Antonin Artaud, suggesting that Boulez's ideas about musical writing (écriture) took shape as the composer imagined and appropriated forms of non-European expression."
Ontological Appropriation: Boulez and Artaud | Twentieth-Century Music | Cambridge Core
Ontological Appropriation: Boulez and Artaud - Volume 18 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Re: the Boulez anniversary: "This article examines the lessons that Pierre Boulez learned about sound from Antonin Artaud, suggesting that Boulez's ideas about musical writing (écriture) took shape as the composer imagined and appropriated forms of non-European expression."
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re: the Boulez anniversary, look up PB's longtime friend and correspondent André Schaeffner, who founded and directed a department at the Musée de l'Homme and participated in multiple "object"-"music"-plundering expeditions in Africa
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
André Schaeffner — Wikipédia
fr.wikipedia.org
April 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
re: the Boulez anniversary, look up PB's longtime friend and correspondent André Schaeffner, who founded and directed a department at the Musée de l'Homme and participated in multiple "object"-"music"-plundering expeditions in Africa
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
re: the Boulez anniversary, look up PB's longtime friend and correspondent André Schaeffner, who founded and directed a department at the Musée de l'Homme and participated in multiple "object"-"music"-plundering expeditions in Africa
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
André Schaeffner — Wikipédia
fr.wikipedia.org
April 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
re: the Boulez anniversary, look up PB's longtime friend and correspondent André Schaeffner, who founded and directed a department at the Musée de l'Homme and participated in multiple "object"-"music"-plundering expeditions in Africa
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...
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Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is a corporate attempt to put an end to climate protest and *particularly* to Indigenous led climate protest. Massive 1A assault. Pretty shocking that our little outlet was one of maybe 3 or 4 that had a reporter there every day of the trial (one of the others was a fake newspaper 🙃)
Verdict in on energy transfer v greenpeace.
Jury found Greenpeace Inc guilty on almost all counts. ET lawyer estimated total damages for Inc, Fund and International around $700 million. (Total still to be confirmed)
Jury found Greenpeace Inc guilty on almost all counts. ET lawyer estimated total damages for Inc, Fund and International around $700 million. (Total still to be confirmed)
March 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is a corporate attempt to put an end to climate protest and *particularly* to Indigenous led climate protest. Massive 1A assault. Pretty shocking that our little outlet was one of maybe 3 or 4 that had a reporter there every day of the trial (one of the others was a fake newspaper 🙃)
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They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn
According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
www.thedp.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
Looking forward to realizing and sharing my pieces with new (to me) folks next Thursday in Seattle. Thanks to Aaron Michael Butler for playing and hosting!
#ClassicalMusic #Aesthetics #ConcertHall #Artwashing #ContemporaryArt #InstitutionalCritique
#ClassicalMusic #Aesthetics #ConcertHall #Artwashing #ContemporaryArt #InstitutionalCritique
March 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Looking forward to realizing and sharing my pieces with new (to me) folks next Thursday in Seattle. Thanks to Aaron Michael Butler for playing and hosting!
#ClassicalMusic #Aesthetics #ConcertHall #Artwashing #ContemporaryArt #InstitutionalCritique
#ClassicalMusic #Aesthetics #ConcertHall #Artwashing #ContemporaryArt #InstitutionalCritique
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Also relevant (from Autry's essay in
Mallory, Seidenstein, Burke, Jackson, Kéla, eds. _Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch
Atlantic Slave Trade : Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures._ (Boston: BRILL, 2025)). (And @arunadsouza.bsky.social you came up in the Q&A, natch.)
Mallory, Seidenstein, Burke, Jackson, Kéla, eds. _Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch
Atlantic Slave Trade : Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures._ (Boston: BRILL, 2025)). (And @arunadsouza.bsky.social you came up in the Q&A, natch.)
March 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Also relevant (from Autry's essay in
Mallory, Seidenstein, Burke, Jackson, Kéla, eds. _Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch
Atlantic Slave Trade : Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures._ (Boston: BRILL, 2025)). (And @arunadsouza.bsky.social you came up in the Q&A, natch.)
Mallory, Seidenstein, Burke, Jackson, Kéla, eds. _Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch
Atlantic Slave Trade : Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures._ (Boston: BRILL, 2025)). (And @arunadsouza.bsky.social you came up in the Q&A, natch.)
Sharing new work in Seattle-Tacoma and (virtually) in England this month
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sharing new work in Seattle-Tacoma and (virtually) in England this month
Presenting at @caavisual next week in Lenapehoking/"NYC" on apocalyptic c0l0nizing logics deeply embedded in Aesthetic philosophy and practice, as a step towards a decolonial dismantling of the Aesthetic and a closer aligning of art pedagogy and practice with decolonial social movements.
February 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Presenting at @caavisual next week in Lenapehoking/"NYC" on apocalyptic c0l0nizing logics deeply embedded in Aesthetic philosophy and practice, as a step towards a decolonial dismantling of the Aesthetic and a closer aligning of art pedagogy and practice with decolonial social movements.
Presenting artwork & talks in Tkaronto and Lenapehoking over the next few weeks. For details and links, visit my website.
January 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Presenting artwork & talks in Tkaronto and Lenapehoking over the next few weeks. For details and links, visit my website.
Writing today about Kant's extensive debt to the writings of Spanish Conquistadors, and what that means for decolonial approaches to all modern Western artistic disciplines. I'll be presenting this writing at the College Art Association conference in "NYC"/Lenapehoking on February 13.
January 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Writing today about Kant's extensive debt to the writings of Spanish Conquistadors, and what that means for decolonial approaches to all modern Western artistic disciplines. I'll be presenting this writing at the College Art Association conference in "NYC"/Lenapehoking on February 13.
Next week in Tkaronto. Features my piece "in the wake of the santa maria," presented for the first time in a video version.
January 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Next week in Tkaronto. Features my piece "in the wake of the santa maria," presented for the first time in a video version.
Tkaronto: I will be presenting prose and an installation from my book in progress on the politics of sensation in the concert hall Feb 6, 12noon, Luella Massey Playhouse.
FOOT 2025
Learn more about the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies 33rd FOOT Conference taking place from February 6 to 7, 2025.
www.cdtps.utoronto.ca
January 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Tkaronto: I will be presenting prose and an installation from my book in progress on the politics of sensation in the concert hall Feb 6, 12noon, Luella Massey Playhouse.
Delighted to be contributing to this exhibition at York University, curated by Aftab Mirzaei. Runs Feb. 3-7; opening reception is Wednesday, Feb. 5, 5-7pm.
Speculative Meteorology: Weather Channeled
nD::StudioLab, Digital Media, School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design, York University, Toronto, On.
ndstudiolab.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Delighted to be contributing to this exhibition at York University, curated by Aftab Mirzaei. Runs Feb. 3-7; opening reception is Wednesday, Feb. 5, 5-7pm.
Events coming up in Lenapehoking ("NYC"), "Seattle," and Tkaronto/Toronto-area.
Events
“The Relational Spectator: Marking Racializing Relations in Concert Music Protocols,” Festival of Original Theatre, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Luella Massey Play…
colintucker.studio
January 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Events coming up in Lenapehoking ("NYC"), "Seattle," and Tkaronto/Toronto-area.
Null Point's 2023 publication is now updated, with sections on new topics.
Feel free to copy and paste into your syllabus; but study should be followed up by action to change infrastructures (certain texts on the list take up what this might entail).
L|nk |n comments.
Feel free to copy and paste into your syllabus; but study should be followed up by action to change infrastructures (certain texts on the list take up what this might entail).
L|nk |n comments.
January 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Null Point's 2023 publication is now updated, with sections on new topics.
Feel free to copy and paste into your syllabus; but study should be followed up by action to change infrastructures (certain texts on the list take up what this might entail).
L|nk |n comments.
Feel free to copy and paste into your syllabus; but study should be followed up by action to change infrastructures (certain texts on the list take up what this might entail).
L|nk |n comments.
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Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown
New text. 2024 was a Significant Anniversary of composer Charles Ives. I trace how this could have been an occasion for decolonial, abolitionist reckoning with a problematic figure, and yet US settler music institutions instead doubled down on an anti-Black, colonial status quo.
Reckoning with the Legacies of Charles Ives
content note: written discussion of relations of settler colonialism and anti-Blackness During 2024, a profusion of discourse was produced to mark the passing of a Significant Anniversary of compos…
colintucker.studio
December 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
New text. 2024 was a Significant Anniversary of composer Charles Ives. I trace how this could have been an occasion for decolonial, abolitionist reckoning with a problematic figure, and yet US settler music institutions instead doubled down on an anti-Black, colonial status quo.
Currently finishing a short piece about this. Drops tomorrow on my website.
Despite Charles Ives's explicit misogyny, anti-Indigenous rhetoric, and anti-Blackness (he participated in minstrel shows), I have yet to see anything resembling a critical take on his work or discourse during this anniversary year. (Please let me know if I'm overlooking something).
December 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Currently finishing a short piece about this. Drops tomorrow on my website.
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Null Point has published “De-normalizing ‘Wide Open Spaces:’ Notes Towards a Decolonial Performance Practice”
Written by @colintuckerstudio.bsky.social, it concerns their realization of Yoko Ono’s “Hide Piece,” from Rust Belt Artists Against Gen*cide.
nullpointseries.wordpress.com/words/de-nor...
Written by @colintuckerstudio.bsky.social, it concerns their realization of Yoko Ono’s “Hide Piece,” from Rust Belt Artists Against Gen*cide.
nullpointseries.wordpress.com/words/de-nor...
De-Normalizing “Wide Open Spaces:” Notes Towards a Decolonial Performance Practice
an essay introducing the audio track Hide Piece by Null Point, based on the score by Yoko Ono, released on the compilation Rust Belt Artists Against Genocide (Infrasonic Press) by Colin Tucker (set…
nullpointseries.wordpress.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Null Point has published “De-normalizing ‘Wide Open Spaces:’ Notes Towards a Decolonial Performance Practice”
Written by @colintuckerstudio.bsky.social, it concerns their realization of Yoko Ono’s “Hide Piece,” from Rust Belt Artists Against Gen*cide.
nullpointseries.wordpress.com/words/de-nor...
Written by @colintuckerstudio.bsky.social, it concerns their realization of Yoko Ono’s “Hide Piece,” from Rust Belt Artists Against Gen*cide.
nullpointseries.wordpress.com/words/de-nor...
It is "Messiah season" and, yet again, there is a deafening silence from presenters on the composer's investments in human trafficking. In this 2023 piece, I argued that these investments were inseparable from "purely musical" aspects of the composer's work.
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before the empire lives long
for musical sample and annotation May 6, 2023 content description: verbal descriptions of racializing stereotypes, references to slavery, colonization, and environmental destruction Statement: “lon…
colintucker.studio
December 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
It is "Messiah season" and, yet again, there is a deafening silence from presenters on the composer's investments in human trafficking. In this 2023 piece, I argued that these investments were inseparable from "purely musical" aspects of the composer's work.
colintucker.studio/projects/bef...
colintucker.studio/projects/bef...
I might write something about this. But the overwhelming institutional silence on this needs to be marked in and of itself.
Despite Charles Ives's explicit misogyny, anti-Indigenous rhetoric, and anti-Blackness (he participated in minstrel shows), I have yet to see anything resembling a critical take on his work or discourse during this anniversary year. (Please let me know if I'm overlooking something).
December 16, 2024 at 9:42 PM
I might write something about this. But the overwhelming institutional silence on this needs to be marked in and of itself.