Leah Decter: x: where our paths cross, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
tributaries
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
A day-long performance by Peter Morin and Leah Decter marking a new tributary of crossing in their ongoing collaboration and presented as part of their exhibition the x is where our paths cross.
the x is where our paths cross is centered in the performance work of hosting and guesting through visiting, trust, and otherwise possibilities. Peter Morin (Tahltan, French Canadian) and Leah Decter (Jewish-Canadian white-settler) mark the crossing of paths across time, territories, and ancestries through reading aloud as an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty and listening-while-drawing as a practice of white-settler accountability.
Included with admission. No registration required. Admission is always free for visitors aged 25 & under, AGGV Members & See Art Pass holders, All Indigenous Peoples, and Support Workers accompanying visitors who need assistance (Leisure Assistant Pass Holders).
Visitors are welcome to come and go throughout the duration of the performance.
Light refreshments will be served. Thank you to the AGGV’s coffee sponsor, Indigenous Roots Coffee Co.
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is located at 1040 Moss Street. Full accessibility information is available on the Gallery's website at https://aggv.ca/accessibility/
Artist Talk: Peter Morin and Leah Decter
Wednesday, November 4 | 5:00 pm - 6:20 pm
University of Victoria, David Turpin Building (DTB), room A120.
All are welcome to enjoy an Artist Talk by Peter Morin and Leah Decter, presented as part of UVic Visual Arts’ Living Artists, Living Art Lecture Series, and in support of the exhibition the x is where our paths cross.
Hosted by UVic Visual Arts Faculty, co-organized and co-supported by the AGGV.
Leah Decter is an artist and independent scholar based in Treaty 1 territory. Working from a critical white settler perspective her solo and collaborative art and research practices address and disturb social-spatial dynamics of settler colonial whiteness through ethics of intergenerational accountability and beingin-relation. Her artwork straddles performance and media arts, textiles and installation using the strategic deployment of personal and national narratives, embodied place-based activations, relational practices, and the manipulation of iconic “Canadiana,” to challenge dominant conceptions of “Canadian-ness,” and enact non-colonial practices and relations.
Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing, articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss, articulating Community Knowing, and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body. The work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration, and on the land. All of the work is informed by dreams, Ancestors, Family members, and performance art as a research methodology. Morin’s artistic practice moves from printmaking to poetry to beadwork to drum making to button blanket making to installation to performance art. Morin’s is the son of Janelle Morin (Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre Morin (French-Canadian).
Read more at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s website.