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Colin Tucker
@colintuckerstudio.bsky.social
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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
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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
March 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Sharing new work in Seattle-Tacoma and (virtually) in England this month
Performance: Feeling as Capacity/ Feeling as Relation, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, March 20, 2025 Talk: "Primitivism and the Racialization of Sensation in David Tudor’s Rainforest series," Society for American Music, Tacoma, March 22, 2025 Virtual Talk: "'Like an empty glass, nothing but wheat:' John Cage’s Chance Systems and/as White Possessive Logics," Composing (with) Systems, University of Sheffield, England, March 27, 2025
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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.
"Art History and Apocalypse: A Decolonial Re-Orientation:" on the unthought yet deep influence of Spanish conquist-adors' writings on Immanuel Kant's aesthetics, and what this means for a decolonial reckoning with the Aesthetic College Art Association Feb. 13, 2025, 11am
February 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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
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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
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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).
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Dismantling the whiteness of concert music: a reading list. Now updated, with new sections on policing, media, musical instruments, and tuning.
January 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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New essay available: nullpointseries.wordpress.com/words/de-nor...
"The present project ... [takes] as axiomatic that all fashionings of Indigenous Land have a constitutive relationship to sovereign Indigenous nations. While this principle is foundational to contemporary Indigenous politics and critical theory on Turtle Island and elsewhere, its implications for US colonizer-settler art musics are extremely unsettling..." -Colin Tucker, "De-normalizing 'wide open spaces:' Notes Towards a Decolonial Performance Practice"
December 16, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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As part of introducing myself on here, I want to share a recent piece of writing about positionality in artistic production. I challenge a certain common-sense around this matter, which I argue actually entrenches existing white supremacy.
the institutions of the Western public sphere are hardly politically neutral; for instance, a reading list I recently published demonstrates how most of the concert hall’s protocols and infrastructures are actively implicated in racializing work (Tucker 2024). Therefore, even when, say, white concert music composers make and circulate work that does not explicitly take racialization as subject matter, they are still implicated in (re)producing racializing frameworks. From this standpoint, the directive that “white artists shouldn’t make art about race” actually obfuscates and disavows their/our always-already racializing institutional position, while also closing off possibilities for challenging this positioning. more nuanced approaches to positionality are needed if it is going to be meaningfully possible for artists read as white to disrupt the myriad and complex ways in which their/our artistic production reiterates racializing relations. The operative question, then, might be not whether artists racialized as white “should” make work about racialization but how they/we might engage in position- and power-sensitive ways in dismantling racializing mechanisms which, for instance, Black study scholars have argued are intrinsic to the Public Sphere (Wilderson 2010), the Aesthetic (Lloyd 2018, Bradley 2023), and Western post-Enlightenment notions of sensory-emotional Cultivation (Schuller 2018). On Positionality: Notes Towards Power-Sensitive Protocols for White and Settler Artists by Colin Tucker colintucker.studio/writing/positionality/
November 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM