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Listening Workshop with Dylan Robinson: wó:thel sq'eq'ó telhlímelh, sthí:ystxwes te syó:ys

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Sunday 6th July | 2025 | 12pm - 3pm

Nottingham Contemporary

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Taking place in conjunction with Dylan Robinson's artwork wó:thel sq'eq'ó telhlímelh, sthí:ystxwes te syó:ys (Listening Work), this workshop begins from the Stó:lō First Nations saying "we don't do any real work unless we are also sharing food." In this workshop, our work will focus on how to "listen otherwise", that is, how to understand our listening habits and engage in new listening practices. We will consider how our listening norms and capacities are guided by our individual positionalities. We will share food, refreshments, and spend time listening and reflecting on our listening experiences together.


Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw scholar and artist (Stó:lō/Skwah). From 2015-2022 he was the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen's University on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe lands. As of July 2022 he is excited to return home to lhq'a:lets / Vancouver to serve as Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in the School of Music, and Advisor to the Dean on Indigenous Arts.

His work takes various forms including writing (from event scores to autotheory), gatherings, curatorial practice and interarts creation. This range of forms offers him a space to integrate the sonic, visual, poetic and material that are inseparable in Stó:lō culture. Across these forms, he identifies as a scholar of sound studies and visual studies, as a collaborator on interdisciplinary research-creation, and as a facilitator (curator/dramaturge) of art and gathering.

In the area of Indigenous sonic culture, his research centers the epistemological stakes of listening positionality. Much of his research has examined the appropriation of Indigenous song in contemporary classical music, and artistic practices of repatriation and redress. Continuing this work, he lead the Indigenous Advisory Council of the Canadian Music Centre as co-chair with Marion Newman, to redress the appropriation of Indigenous song and mis-representation of Indigenous culture in Canadian compositions. Another project, Xóxelhmetset te Syewá:l | Caring for Our Ancestors, involves Indigenous-led processes for re-connecting kinship between Indigenous songs and material culture—variously understood as loved ones, ancestors, life—and the communities that they come from. The project also takes as a central objective an examination of the carceral logics of museums as spaces that confine Indigenous life.

Dylan's research on Indigenous public art is characterised by a focus on inter-arts forms (text-based art, sound art and devised performance) that engage multiple senses. This work questions how Indigenous rights and settler colonialism are embodied and spatialised in public space. His most recent work in this area examines public art and civic beautification initiatives in Canada that interpellate settler subjectivity by re-materialising colonial history. Doing so enacts violence toward Indigenous lands as a non-human relation that such work is situated upon.

In all these areas Dylan's aim is to prioritise Indigenous resurgence and to re-envision dominant scholarly modes of dissemination (writing, gathering, festival and exhibition curation), working toward forms of expression that convey the sensory experience of Indigenous life, and address Indigenous publics. This work has been recognised by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best First Book Award (Hungry Listening), the American Musicological Society's Ruth Solie Award (Music and Modernity) and the Society for Ethnomusicology's Ellen Koskoff Prize (Music and Modernity) in addition to other awards he has been honoured to receive.

As a Halq'emeylem language learner, Dylan seeks to engage the vibrancy of shxwélmexw concepts and to foster the emergence of a future public of Halq'eméylem speakers.

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This event will be held in Gallery 0.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.

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Listening Workshop with Dylan Robinson (6 July 2025)
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