Artist Peter Morin is inspired by moving images of drums as records of songs, lived life, cultural practice, ancestral knowledge and love. For NDN Love Songs, Morin created seven videos that function as “drum portraits.” The drums featured in the videos are from the Royal BC Museum, and each portrait represents someone Morin has loved, and for whom he has not fully been able to express that love. As Soundings has toured, Morin’s score has been performed by local musicians and added as audio tracks to each drum portrait. For Morin, each drum is a body and a territory.
NDN Love Songs by Peter Morin
Installation view, Soundings, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre at Queens University, Kingston, Canada. Courtesy of AEAC and ICI. (Photo: Paul Litherland)
Part of Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts
Watch: Performances of NDN Love Songs
About the artwork
Peter Morin
(Tahltan-French)
Prince George, BC, 1977
Currently based in Tkaronto, Mississaugas of the New Credit, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and Huron-Wendat Territory
NDN Love Songs, 2018
Vinyl transfer, digital video
With Navarana Igloliorte
PART ONE
A score of instructions to musicians is presented alongside seven video portraits.
PART TWO
Recordings of previous performances are added to the video portraits.
PART THREE
The score is performed.
Peter Morin
Peter Morin
Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator.
Explore
