Bennett Charles Kuhn (b. 1988, NYC) is a third-year graduate student at West Chester University’s Graduate Department of Social Work as well as an artist, educator, and community organizer based in Lënapehòkink (colonially known as Philadelphia).
As a clinical intern at the Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy (PCETT) in Media, PA, Kuhn current practices individual psychotherapy in a variety of idioms appropriate to trauma-specific care. Drawing on backgrounds in the expressive arts, philosophy / critical theory, and harm reduction, Kuhn informs his theoretical and practical engagement with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and psychodrama –– as well as study of the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions that have long been of personal interest and therapeutic value to him –– within a decolonial and abolitionist framework honed through more than fifteen years of community-based organizing in Philly, NYC, and Nicaragua.
Kuhn’s art projects combine traditional mediums like music, film (‘house tour’), and experimental non-fiction into performative and aesthetic practices that depart from traditional industrial expectations in order to archive, activate, and platform specific aspects of community-based movement work, both IRL and virtually as part of a global music community, that share values alignment. In a decade in Philadelphia, Kuhn has tapped his roots in music composition, recording, DJing, drumming, critique, curation, and more to help advocate for youth justice in Philly, including as a resource coordinator at music education non-profit Beyond the Bars, co-initiator of health justice collective Creative Resilient Youth, and co-director of the music collective and mutual aid front Astro Nautico (est. 2009 in Brooklyn).
As a clinical intern at the Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy (PCETT) in Media, PA, Kuhn current practices individual psychotherapy in a variety of idioms appropriate to trauma-specific care. Drawing on backgrounds in the expressive arts, philosophy / critical theory, and harm reduction, Kuhn informs his theoretical and practical engagement with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and psychodrama –– as well as study of the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions that have long been of personal interest and therapeutic value to him –– within a decolonial and abolitionist framework honed through more than fifteen years of community-based organizing in Philly, NYC, and Nicaragua.
Kuhn’s art projects combine traditional mediums like music, film (‘house tour’), and experimental non-fiction into performative and aesthetic practices that depart from traditional industrial expectations in order to archive, activate, and platform specific aspects of community-based movement work, both IRL and virtually as part of a global music community, that share values alignment. In a decade in Philadelphia, Kuhn has tapped his roots in music composition, recording, DJing, drumming, critique, curation, and more to help advocate for youth justice in Philly, including as a resource coordinator at music education non-profit Beyond the Bars, co-initiator of health justice collective Creative Resilient Youth, and co-director of the music collective and mutual aid front Astro Nautico (est. 2009 in Brooklyn).