In connection with the release of LTERP resident artist Colin Tucker’s new piece, Shaver’s Creek presents an artist talk introducing the piece. Exploring intersections between experimental music, contemporary art, and decolonial study, the piece consists of a series of textual prompts for listening, looking, and observing in Shaver’s Creek’s outdoor environment. The piece positions Romantic notions of Wilderness within ongoing power dynamics of settler imperialism, historicizing and politicizing their seeming “naturalness.” 

The talk will introduce this new and unusual piece to a non-specialist audience. First, it will contextualize the piece within ongoing researches in the fields of experimental music and contemporary art. Second, the talk will elaborate on the histories relevant to the piece by situating Romantic ideas of Wilderness within 1830s-40s New England settler whiteness. Finally, the artist will speak in an accessible fashion about the methodological challenges inherent in excavating ghosts of past eras ingrained in the present.

This talk will be presented on zoom - registered participants will receive a link emailed prior to the event.