Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
Excavating the Coloniality of (Romantic) Wilderness with Contemporary Arts


Excavating the Coloniality of (Romantic) Wilderness with Contemporary Arts
Date/Time
Registration Begins
9/1/2022
Last Day To Register
9/12/2022 11:55 PM
Location
Virtual Event - ZOOM
PA, US
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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.

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If you need additional assistance or accommodations for accessibility purposes,
please contact Shaver's Creek Environmental Center at (814) 863-2000.
 
If you need additional assistance or accommodations for accessibility purposes,
please contact Shaver's Creek Environmental Center at (814) 863-2000.