Carlo Tuason

Carlo Tuason (he/him) is a musician, curator, and PhD student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research, writing, and curatorial practices explore complexes of power, temporal regimes and speed, visuality, infrastructure, logistics, and performance as they manifest in contemporary art and visual/sonic cultures within Asia and its diaspora. 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.

Currently, his work focuses on infrastructural and logistical systems and  their embodied aesthetics, framing them as space-time complexes(airports, metro stations, public parks, malls, etc) that instantiate a particular understanding of ‘neoliberal globalization’ in global Hong Kong, as well as how artists and everyday individuals creatively intervene and negotiate the terms of the state’s visual, temporal, and spatial modes of organization. His writing has appeared and is forthcoming in X-TRA, Amerasia Journal, DIAcritics, and The Experiment Station- The Phillips Collection. 

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