Andrea Zarza Canova & Dylan Robinson

This show begins with a short introduction by Andrea Zarza Canova, one of the curators of the exhibition Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen open from 31 May – 7 Sep, 2025 at Nottingham Contemporary. It then continues with an excerpt from Dylan Robinson’s here, inside, kwetxwí:lem, a newly commissioned work by Nottingham Contemporary for the exhibition Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen. 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.