Xenia Benivolski

Xenia Benivolski curates, writes, and lectures about sound, music, and visual art. She is editor and curator of You Can’t Trust Music at yctm.e-flux.com, a research project connecting sound-based artists, musicians, and writers to explore together the way that music contributes to the formation of social and political structures. Xenia is a research associate with the Worker as Futurist project at Lakehead University. She teaches art writing at OCADU in Toronto.

By Xenia Benivolski

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    08.12.2023

    Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection

    Codex Quetzalecatzin. © Courtesy of Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
    How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
    By Anjeline de Dios, Phil Dodds , Sanne Krogh Groth, Xenia Benivolski, Hild Borchgrevink, Nils Bubandt, Yurii Chekan , Maria Rijo Lopes Da Cunha , Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell , Caryl Mann, Ania Mauruschat, Ucee-Uchenna L. Nwachukwu, Ellen Marie Bråthen Steen & Yiren Zhao