Pandemonium Ts’éqw’

This seminar discusses a draft introduction to Dylan Robinson’s current book project on non-human forms of interpellation.

Event Title: Pandemonium Ts’éqw’

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Time: 1 PM - 2:30 PM

*If you are interested in obtaining a reading before attending the event, please reach out to Dr. Lindsey Freeman at lindsey_freeman@sfu.ca

Abou the Event:

This seminar provides an opportunity to discuss a draft introduction to Dylan Robinson’s current book project on non-human forms of interpellation, and in particular, the role that public art and civic infrastructure play in formations of settler subjectivity and Indigenous resurgence. Moving beyond forms of address by a human voice, the book theorizes interpellation’s range of sensory appeals, through invitation, entreaty, summons, beckoning and demand. Despite the prevalence for this constellation of words to speak to human forms of speech, the book instead focuses on the intersensory clamour and haptic rumblings of material form. How are settler and Indigenous subjects constituted through turning toward (and away from) “all our relations” within an urban pandemonium?

Bio:

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah First Nation member) artist, curator, and writer. Based at the University of British Columbia’s School of Music, he is a Professor and Associate Dean Equity. Dr. Robinson’s curatorial work includes the international touring exhibition Soundings (2019–25) co-curated with Candice Hopkins. His book, Hungry Listening (University Minnesota Press, 2020), examines Indigenous and settler-colonial practices of listening, and was awarded best first book for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Society for Music Theory’s Wallace Barry Award for Best Book.