Carlo Tuason

Carlo Tuason (he/him) is a musician, curator, and PhD candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.  His dissertation examines infrastructures in global Hong Kong as sites of embodied governance through which the temporality of the Special Administrative Region is structured, across empires, in the constant drive towards an infrastructural modernity. He advances his concept of logistical aesthetics to describe how large-scale infrastructural systems structure everyday experience through multisensory regimes, which he explores through both audio-visual spatial analysis and the artistic practices of Hong Kong–based and diasporic artists. Across his research, curatorial and creative practices, he foregrounds multisensory methodologies that bridge visual studies, sound studies, and the body.

His writing has appeared and is forthcoming in X-TRA, Amerasia Journal, DIAcritics, and The Experiment Station- The Phillips Collection. He has previously assisted on exhibitions and projects at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Chinese American Museum-Los Angeles.

Carlo holds an MA in Curatorial Practice and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California, a BA in International Affairs from the University of Cincinnati, and a BM in Music Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music. He releases music and performs under the stage name “Chay Guan.”

• MA University of Southern California, 2020
• BM Performance (Violin), College-Conservatory of Music, 2018
• BA International Relations, University of Cincinnati, 2018