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Born on a small-forested island in the Salish Sea, he is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, performer, sailor and woodsman. His art working includes puppet shows, street performances, dance, serigraphy, ecological sculpture, and theatre.

In 2017, he completed a doctorate in Performance Studies with designated emphases in Native American Studies, and Science and Technology Studies at University of California, Davis. In 2005, he earned a Bachelors of Arts studying interdisciplinary theatre and performance at Evergreen State College. For 20 years, duskin has been making art and performance in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

His work explores substantive ecological and social interactions between human and non-human entities. Substantive relations are crucial companions and feedstocks — significant others like salmon, caribou, or petroleum and lithium, or worldly foundations like geographical features or locations, and perhaps even concepts.

duskin works with two intertwined methods, creative practices like art, performance, and theatre, and, more theoretical, analytical study and interpretive descriptions of infrastructure, technology, and environmental justice. With both methods, he aims to contribute to changes in epistemological, cultural, and political economic relationships with nature and ecology precipitated by global warming and other consequences of industrial and colonial society.

Currently, duskin teaches in Liberal Studies at New York University and is a research affiliate of the Centre for Energy Ethics at University of St Andrews.