Soundings Performances at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

On Aug 9, 2020

Kitchener, Canada

How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization?

Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts unfolds in a sequence of five parts, with scores take the form of beadwork, videos, objects, graphic notation, historical belongings, and written instructions. During the exhibition, these scores are activated at specific moments by musicians, dancers, performers and members of the public gradually filling the gallery and surrounding public spaces with sound and action.

Watch the videos below to listen to the scores of two artworks from Soundings at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, was on view at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery from May 30, 2020 to August 9, 2020 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Peter Morin (Tahltan-French)

NDN Love Songs, 2018

Vinyl transfer, digtial video

With Navarana Igloliorte

Collection of the artist

Performed by Charlena Russell

Tania Willard (Secwépemc)

Surrounded/Surrounding, 2018

Wood burning fire ring, laser etched leather, wood, vinyl transfer

Collection of the artist

Performed by Alysha Brilla, accompanied by Sammy Duke, Yasin Dewji and Gerima Harvey.

Artists

Peter Morin

Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator.

Tania Willard

Tania Willard, of Secwépemc and settler heritage, works within the shifting ideas around contemporary and traditional, often working with bodies of knowledge and skills that are conceptually linked to her interest in intersections between Aboriginal and other cultures.