James Currie is a multi-arts practitioner and Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Music and the Politics of Negation.
“To show us the view from doing nothing, while Currie is, of course, doing many things, is a wonderful paradox from which to begin. Especially in a moment where depression and dissociation are being theorized anew, Doing Nothing is provocative and against the grain of how-tos and wellness culture.”—Hannah Zeavin, author of, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy