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Love Songs to End Colonization

January 24, 2025 - January 24, 2025

Mark your calendars for January 24th at 8pm, as we present Love Songs to End Colonization with artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick at the Kenderdine Art Gallery! They will be in a production residency at our Rounding Space, (now located at the Kenderdine Gallery for the winter term) from January 20 – 24. The week will complete with this joyful exchange.

About this Program

Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing-along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time.

About the Artists

Jimmie Kilpatrick

Jimmie Kilpatrick is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and musician based in Brandon, Manitoba. Working primarily with kinetic sound sculpture, his research explores materiality and form. Kilpatrick’s work routinely incorporates metal, wood, clay, fiber, and explores how organic materials co-mingle with creative technology/electronics, sound, and found objects. His sculptural explorations live as both exhibitions and musical compositions. Kilpatrick cut his rock & roll teeth in the early 2000’s, as part of the seminal east coast indie outfit Shotgun and Jaybird, and has been touring regularly and releasing records on Toronto’s You’ve Changed Records since 2009. He has appeared on recordings by John K. Samson, Christine Fellows, Joel Plaskett and By Divine Right. Kilpatrick's 2011 release Transistor Sister was long-listed for Canada’s Polaris Music Prize. Kilpatrick holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Brandon University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba. In 2018, he was the Manitoba Winner of the BMO 1stART! Competition and presented his performance/installation Quality Control at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto.

Peter Morin

Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator. Throughout his artistic practice, Morin investigates the impact zones that occur when Indigenous practices collide with Western-settler colonialism. Like his ancestors who have walked on the land, he carries Tahltan knowledge, ideas and history with him wherever he is. Every step along the way, Tahltan knowledge has guided his researching, dreaming, learning, and making of the past twenty years in both artistic and curatorial practices. Morin began art school in 1997, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver in 2001 and his Masters in Fine Arts in 2010 at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. Initially trained in lithography, Morin’s artistic practice moves from printmaking to poetry to beadwork to installation to drum making to performance. In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievements by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist. Morin holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.