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🧵 about USAID, US ag and food aid

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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.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Trump paused 25% tariff on Mexico, after Mexico agreed to further border militarization. Mexico already has one of world's largest immigration detention systems. I repeat myself, but pay attention to migration policy! It's almost always compass for what's happening in both domestic & foreign policy

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Presenting artwork & talks in Tkaronto and Lenapehoking over the next few weeks. For details and links, visit my website.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Next week in Tkaronto. Features my piece "in the wake of the santa maria," presented for the first time in a video version.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Events coming up in Lenapehoking ("NYC"), "Seattle," and Tkaronto/Toronto-area.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown

submitted 47 days ago • 461 comments

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.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Currently finishing a short piece about this. Drops tomorrow on my website.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I might write something about this. But the overwhelming institutional silence on this needs to be marked in and of itself.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

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).

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

New essay available: nullpointseries.wordpress.com/words/de-nor...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Lorraine O'Grady lifted me up with her intellect, her wit, her nerve. This assignment came at a point in my life when I needed it and didn't even know. She was a blessing. I am saddened to know Lorraine has passed, and I am endlessly grateful to her. She lit flames that will never go out. 🖤

submitted 73 days ago • 41 comments

Published a year ago and sadly still relevant...

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submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

As I argue in detail in my new essay, Americana art music's institutional history indexes how large/legacy (settler) concert music institutions have been chronically unable to even notice the colonialism-imperialism being enacted right in front of their own eyes/ears.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

New essay out, which is both a critique and proposal for a critical & otherwise performance practice. Please share widely with concert music networks, especially those on occupied Turtle Island. For the record, I am happy to chat with anyone (formally or informally) who will engage in good faith.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

New essay out today on reckoning with settler imperial logics in Americana art music through critical performance practice grounded in Indigenous & decolonial studies analytics; I also reflect on how this project relates to present-day struggles against the Zionist outpost of US empire

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really valuable tool to evaluate environmental cancer risk, block-by-block in the USA. If you're looking to buy a home, check the address first.

submitted 83 days ago • 7 comments

Drops Monday: new essay introducing the broader project of which this track is a part. Through a grounding in Indigenous studies, the essay locates how colonial dispossession is foundational to Americana art music, and proposes a decolonial performance practice for/against this music.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

I've been part of this project for the past three years and am very excited to introduce the Yellowhead Treaty Map: an accessible introduction to Indigenous perspectives on treaties in Canada. The team at Yellowhead knocked it out of the park with this one. treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

After a decade of empty reconciliation talk, we're still pretty much in the same place, except now facing a fascist backlash to all things progressive

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

On NDAs in the Canadian Arts Sector: "With countless examples of unjust experiences, wrongful dismissals, and the weaponization of confidentiality language, we are grieving the incredible loss of potential for what our art world could accomplish and grow into" blackflash.ca/silencing-in...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Axiomatic to Indigenous critical theory (as I read it): all fashionings of (occupied) Indigenous Land have a constitutive relation to sovereign Indigenous Nations. If taken seriously, this principle radically destabilizes the underlying terms of existing settler artistic production.

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"By 1913, virtually all of the ivory imported to the US from Africa was manufactured into pianos, and two thirds of that ivory came from the Congo." -Sean Murray, "Pianos, Ivory, and Empire" ...Yet complete silence from art music institutions about this history & its present-day legacies...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

A line in the sand which I have found useful: in a work, field, institution, etc., are the analytics of specific anti-oppressive fields of knowledge (Black, decolonial, trans, disability, etc.) meaningfully thinkable or are they unthinkable? (On the (un)thinkable, I find MR Trouillot useful).

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Peak liberal settler colonialism

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Recent audio and text project of mine, marking settler colonial power in canonical Americana music, via a Yoko Ono score and Indigenous critical theory. A related project drops next week.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Recent audio and text project of mine, marking settler colonial power in canonical Americana music, via a Yoko Ono score and Indigenous critical theory. A related project drops next week.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Link here: colintucker.studio/writing/posi...

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