Dylan Robinson Public Talk and Seminar with CRiSAP

Renowned xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist, curator, and writer, Dylan Robinson visited CRiSAP and the UAL Doctoral School to give a special public talk and seminar. He shared his important work on the ethics of listening. Robinson is a Professor at the University of British Columbia and author of:

• Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2020).

The event drew a large public audience from different disciplines. Research student Cannach MacBride initiated the event in relation to their PhD ‘Listening as creative practice, listening and decolonial practices: plural methods, plural experiences’. The session was a collaboration between CRiSAP and Dylan Robinson. Support was provided by Techne and the Doctoral School.

Robinson shared insights from his sounding and listening practice, which explores settler-colonial practices of culture and material extraction. He invited the audience to view public artworks from an indigenous position. He asked them to consider what is at stake in these works. His talk drew on his current research that critiques public artworks. He also shared a practice he calls “inter-sensory modalities of listening”.

During the afternoon Robinson hosted a small session based on his new book project. Participants had the chance to get involved in deep and layered conversations. Discussions included: witnessing, public art, text scores and the ethics of listening.

Captions were provided by Heather Casali.

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