Colin Self
Composer, Performer, Director
Karl-Marx-Allee 141 10243 Berlin
+49 176 6274 8897
EDUCATION
2014-2017 Bard Milton-Avery Program, NY, MFA
2008-2010 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
2006-2008 The Evergreen State College
TEACHING
NYU Berlin: Music Mentorship Program, fall 2017 – ongoing
NYU Berlin: Experiments in the Future of Performance, fall 2018 – ongoing
SELECT PERFORMANCE WORK, organized by piece
Where The Souls Go
2024, New Theater Hollywood, US
Kompass I,II,III (a trilogy)
2024, Stattoper Hannover, DE
Paraphrase of a Shadow / The Lemniscatic Elliptic
2023, Callie’s Berlin, DE
Paramour of the Whirlpool
2022, Trauma Bar Und Kino, Berlin, DE
Tip The Ivy
2022, Performance Space New York
2022, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, AT
Help the Dead with Geo Wyeth and Every Ocean Hughes
2022, Cleveland Museum of Art
2022, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2019, KW Berlin
XOIR Open Sessions
2022, POP Kultur Festival, Berlin, DE
2022, Floating University, Berlin, DE
2022, Performance Space New York, part of Open Movement
2021, ACUD, Berlin, DE
2020, Floating University, Berlin DE
2018, Gropiu Bau, Berlin, DE
Holly Herndon Ensemble
2018 – ongoing, various international venues incl. CTM Festival, Berlin, Barbican Center, London
DOOM with Teresa Vittucci
2022 WUK, Vienna, AT
2022 Sophiensaale, Berlin, DE
2021 Théâtre St-Gervais Genève, SZ
2021, Tanzhaus Zürich, SZ
everything fits in the room
2022, Rome, IT
2017, HAU, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Nanti Polari
2021, KW Berlin, DE
2023, Hannover Oper, DE
The World To Come, with Berliner Rundfunkchor
2020, Rundfunkhaus / Vollguthanger, Berlin, DE
Subtext
2019, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, DE
COLIN SELF 1
Siblings (Elation VI)
2019, HAU1, Berlin, DE
2019, ICA London, UK
2018, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2017, DonauFestival, Krems, Austria
Holly Herndon A/V Trio
2015-2017 International Tour
The Fool (Elation V)
2017, The Kitchen NYC, New York, NY
2014, Issue Project Room, New York, NY (Co-written and directed with Raul De Nieves)
Strategy 1-6” for the Opera Forward Festival, Performance
2016, The Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, Netherlands
3hd: The Labor of Sound in a World of Debt, Performance
2015, HAU2 Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Docking, Performance & Audio Programming
2015, Commission for BOFFO Performance Festival, Fire Island, NY
ELATION Walks, Performance & Audio Programming
2015, Otherwild Store, Los Angeles, LA 2015, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn NY
Normal Singing, Multimedia Choral Performance
2015, Museum of Art & Design, New York NY
Dirty Looks Roadshow, Performance, and Panel Discussion
2014, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2015, Pennsylvania State BIOCODE Conference, PA
Stockhausen’s Originale (2014), Organized by Caden Manson and Nick Hallett, Action Musician 2014, The Kitchen, New York NY
god sees everything, Music/Sound Composition for Phoebe Osbourne
2014, OMCA, Oakland, CA
Vocal Exercises 7-12, Choral Vocal Performance
2014, VOX POPULI at AUX, Philadelphia, PA
Vocal Exercises 1-6, Choral Vocal Performance
2014, White Columns for The White Columns Annual, New York NY
ELATION IV
2013, PS1 MOMA for Randy Magazine Release, Queens NY 2013, REDCAT Theater for Outfest, Los Angeles, CA
CHEZ DEEP, Performance
2014, The Poetry Club, Glasgow, UK 2013, Ace Hotel, New York, NY
2012, Santos Party House, New York, NY 2012, Nada Pool Party, Miami, FL
The Liturgy of The Divine Feminine, Performance
2013, Dixon Place for PS122’s COIL festival, New York, NY 2012, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
ELATION III: Sinister Backbend, Performance & Lecture
2012, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL
2012, For BLASTING VOICE at The Suzanne Geiss Gallery, New York, NY
Dragon Is The Frame (Group Show for Mark Aguhar), Performance Installation 2012, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR, current selection: all 2021–ongoing
Martine Syms
Marianna Simnett
Astrit Ismaili
Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann
SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK
Polari Affinity Group
2019 – ongoing, various
Regenerative Feedback: Source/Channel Noise
2018, Issue Project Room
Clump / ClumpTV / The Radical Diva Grant
2020 – ongoing TV Bar, Berlin
2010-2014, Monthly Queer Performance & Music & Bi-Annual Grant Program, Trophy Bar, Brooklyn NY
Next Time 1: (Almost)
2011, Performances, Triskilion Arts, Brookyln NY
Next Time 2: (Already)
2012, Performances and Installations, White Box Gallery, New York NY
The Next Time Symposium
2013, Conferences, Lectures, Performances, and Publication, envoy enterprises, New York NY
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2024 La Becque Principal Artist Resident, Vevey, CH
2023 Callie’s Berlin Resident, Berlin D
2022 Neustart Kunstfonds Grant Recipient, Berlin, DE
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, NY
2021 Akademie der Kuenste INITIAL Stipendium, Berlin
2018 FUGA Resident @ Etopia, Zaragoza, SP
2015 Horton Gallery Resident, Berlin
2015 Shandaken Residency Recipient, NY
2014/15 Eyebeam Resident, New York NY
2013/14 Queer Art Mentorship Fellowship, NY
2013/14 Rhizome Commission Artist Grant Recipient, NY
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