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Abstracts of recent conference papers

Relations, not Blank Slates,” Program notes for Open Ears Festival (May 2025)

An interview with Colin Tucker of Null Point,” interview with Open Ears Festival (May 2025)

Reckoning with the Legacies of Charles Ives” (December 2024)

De-Normalizing ‘Wide Open Spaces:’ Notes Towards a Decolonial Performance Practice,” Null Point Words (November 2024)

“‘Wide Open Spaces’ as a Technique of Dis/possession,” Rust Belt Artists Against Genocide, Infrasonic Press (October 2024)

Earmark: Colin Tucker,” Canadian Music Centre (April 2024)

On Positionality: Notes Towards Power-Sensitive Protocols for White and Settler Artists,” (January 2024)

Mapping Art Music’s Complicity in the Occupation of Palestine,” Null Point Words (December 2023-)

Dismantling the Whiteness of Concert Music Protocols: a Reading List,” Null Point Words (June 2023)

The Symphonic as Relation,” Null Point Words (July 2022)

“Western Art Music and Abolition: Thresholds to an Artistic Research Program,” talk at Centre for Practice-Led Research in the Arts, University of Leeds, abstract available here (April 2022)

Ghosts against White/Colonial Ignorance,” commissioned by Burchfield-Penney Art Center (November 2021)

Nature is Not Natural,” program essay for Artpark/Null Point (July 2021)

Null Point transforms our understanding of public spaces, interview with Artpark (July 2021)

Modern Water on occupied Turtle Island,” commissioned by Visual Studies Workshop (June 2021)

Introducing the Event Score and Decolonial Performance Practice,” commissioned by Visual Studies Workshop (2021)

Hiding in the Open: Banality, Terror, and Care in Everyday Atmospheres,” program essay for Bemis Center/Null Point (September 2020)

The PLACE IssueSound American, guest edited with Ethan Hayden (April 2018)

A Listener’s Guide to David Dunn’s PLACE,” Sound American 19 (April 2018)

Performing PLACE: Conversations with the Performers about Null Point’s World Premiere Realizations of David Dunn’s PLACE,” Sound American 19 (April 2018)

Realizing PLACENotes on Curatorial and Performance Practice,” interview with Jennie Gottschalk, Sound American 19 (April 2018)

“surfaces,” program essay for site-specific realization with Null Point of James Saunders’s “surfaces” in Buffalo Gear & Axle Plant (May 2017)