On Our Terms with Tory Johnston
Date & Time
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2 p.m.
This event is in the past.
Tickets
Location
Join the Burke Museum for a film screening of On Our Terms, plus a conversation with co-producer Aaron McCanna and Tory Johnston, a musician, scholar and KEXP DJ, on decolonization and communicating ideas through music.
About the Speaker
Tory Johnston (Quinault) is a guitarist, music theorist, doctoral candidate in Native American Studies at UC Davis, and part-time lecturer of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. His work attunes to the sounded knowledges of Indigenous life for their worldmaking potentialities. Every other Monday he’s DJ Tory J/dr. čınus, co-host of Sounds of Survivance on KEXP, the global Indigenous music show.
His forthcoming dissertation is a mixtape of critical Coast Salish music theory, explicating Indigenous-led and Indigeneity-centered analyses of sound, music, law, philosophy, materiality, improvisation, and the internet. He loves the 5/4-time signature, pedalboard building, and most genres featuring the guitar. He wears on his sleeve that he’s a metalhead and his last band was a funk/jazz/pop quintet called Dysfunktional.
About On Our Terms
On Our Terms is a video project grounded in storytelling of commonly used DEAI terms like decolonization, consultation, and healing. Words like these regularly show up in mission statements, social media captions, and speeches, but it can be hard to parse the meaning or intention behind them. Instead of telling you what these words mean to us, we wanted to turn to our community to see how these concepts show up in their lives.
