Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land

Peter Morin with Ayumi Goto, this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land, 2013. Documentation of performance. Photo: Ashok Mathur. Courtesy of the artists.
Peter Morin with Ayumi Goto, this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land, 2013. Documentation of performance. Photo: Ashok Mathur. Courtesy of the artists.
Peter Morin with Ayumi Goto, this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land, 2013. Documentation of performance. Photo: Ashok Mathur. Courtesy of the artists.

Peter Morin with Ayumi Goto, this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land, 2013. Documentation of performance.
Photo: Ashok Mathur. Courtesy of the artists.

 

The Vancouver Art Gallery announces a new exhibition bridging the experiences of artists with diverse ancestries in dialogue, Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? on view July 14 to October 28, 2018. Long-time collaborators and friends, Goto and Morin have created a performance art practice informed by their perspectives as a Japanese diasporic woman and Tahltan First Nations man. Together, Goto and Morin investigate their distinctive relationships to place in this presentation of new installations and reassembled documentation from their individual and collaborative performances over the past six years.

Ayumi Goto is a performance artist based in Toronto, traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe and the Huron-Wendat. Born in Canada, she explores her Japanese heritage to question and confront notions of nation-building, cultural belonging, and structural racism.

Peter Morin is a Sobey Award-nominated Tahltan Nation artist, curator and writer whose work focuses on Indigenous ways of knowing and the disruption of Western settler colonialism. His art serves as a record of his ongoing process of understanding and practicing his culture and language.

The artists first began their creative partnership with this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land during the 2013 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada’s Quebec National Event in Montreal. Incorporating video and performance, the work considered Indigenous and settler structures of witnessing beyond the Indigenous-to-state framework of the TRC.

 

The collection of gifts exchanged by the artists over the course of their friendship.

The collection of gifts exchanged by the artists over the course of their friendship.

The exhibition features both visual art and multi media installation.

The exhibition features both visual art and multi media installation.

Below are some photos from Roving Gallery Performance: this is not us on Sat, Jul 21 at 2:00pm. 

Three portrait masks carved by Haida artist Corey Bulpitt is removed from the display and activated by artists Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin and senior curatorial fellow Tarah Hogue.

Three portrait masks carved by Haida artist Corey Bulpitt is removed from the display and they are worn and activated by artists Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin and senior curatorial fellow Tarah Hogue.

Roving Gallery Performance: <i>this is not us</i>

Roving Gallery Performance: this is not us

Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land?

July 14 to October 28, 2018

Vancouver Art Gallery

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