Colin Self

Colin Self is a compos- er and choreographer based in Brooklyn and Berlin. He creates music, performance, and environments for ex- panding consciousness, troubling binaries and boundaries of perception and communication. His recent work, The Elation Series, is a six-part sequential opera about queer family and glob- al transfiguration. In 2015 he released his debut solo record Elation and toured with Radiohead as a part of the Holly Herndon trio.

Colin has presented work at The Dutch National Opera, HAU Berlin, The New Museum, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen NYC, Issue Project Room, amongst various other festivals and venues internationally. Self is a Rhizome Commission Grant recipient for his video proj- ect ClumpTV, a Queer Art Mentorship Fellow, and was an Eyebeam Resident in 2016. He is a co-founder of queer collective Chez Deep, and The Radical Diva Grant, and was a vocalist and performer for the band SSION. His recent work, The Fool, was co-created with Raul De Nieves and presented at The Kitchen NYC in 2017. His most recent opera, Siblings (Elation VI) premiered at Donau Festival in Krems, Austria in 2017 and was presented at PS1 MoMA in 2018. He has made music for various choreographers including a musical collaboration with Miguel Gutierrez for Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony’s Everything Fits in the Room. He recently completed his MFA at the Bard Milton-Avery Program and runs a non-utilitar- ian choir internationally. Self was a 2018 res- ident fellow at Etopia for FUGA in Zaragoza, Spain and released his second record Siblings on RVNG International in late 2018.