collaboration with Peter Morin
2024
Artist Book: Light Factory Publication’s Reading the Migration Library Undercurrents and Folds series.
Host Artists (series editors): Lois Klassen and Deanna Achong
Full credits and more info here
x: the meeting place makes the spine is part of the larger in care of and x: where our paths cross projects. It was created for Light Factory Publication’s Reading the Migration Library Undercurrents and Folds series.
From the Undercurrents and Folds/Light Factry Publications website:
“ When opened, this multi-part accordion book produces an X that echoes the spaces where Indigenous sovereignties intersect with the necessary activation of settler responsibilities in relation to place. It results from an ongoing collaborative relationship between artist-scholars Peter Morin (Tahltan Nation/French-Canadian ancestry) and Leah Decter (Ashkenazi Jewish white settler). The book is a record of virtual performances in which Peter reads Tahltan stories translated by white anthropologist James Teit, while Leah draws Tahltan territory from Peter’s family photos.”
This publication would not have been possible without funding and support from BC Arts Council (Individual Arts Award); Canada Council for the Arts (Research Creation, Explore and Create grant); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Critical Media Art Studio, School of Interactive Art and Technology, SFU; Centre for Inter-Media Arts and Decolonial Expression (CIMADE), the Canada Research Chairs Program; SITE/ation Studio, UBCO, Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Manitoba Arts Council.
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