Land Moving
Authors:
Peter Morin
Ayumi Goto
Date:
2015
ISBN: 978-0-9950486-1-4
Abstract:
From the 2015 Immigration Symposium, Peter Morin and Ayumi Goto discuss the impact of Canadian policy on immigrants, refugees and temporary foreign workers. We have identified two key areas of concern, and will look at these through multiple lenses, beginning with Indigenous perspective:
1) The difficulties in the current system for community groups interested in sponsoring people, and help settle and support refugees, which is creating challenges in achieving refugee resettlement goals and effective outcomes.
2) The consequences of immigration policies and practices shaped solely by economics – such as the temporary foreign worker program – for achieving social and social justice related goals. Peter Morin and Ayumi Goto's performance is situated in relationship with the land. This is about carrying the land like it does for you in an act of reciprocity which shifts perspectives.
The Immigration Symposium was held at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus in 2015.
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Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan ancestor artists. Morin’s work highlights cross-ancestral collaboration and deeply considers the impact zones that occur between Indigenous ways of knowing and Western Settler Colonialism. Morin’s practice has spanned twenty years so far, with exhibitions in London, Berlin, Singapore, New Zealand, and Greenland, as well as across Canada and the United States. Morin currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.
Ayumi Goto is a performance artist based in Kelowna, Okanagan Nation territory. Born in Canada, she draws upon her Japanese heritage to trouble sedimented notions of nation-building, cultural belonging, and human-land relationships in her creative work. She has served as the art facilitator at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver. Ayumi guest co-edited the Summer 2012 issue of West Coast Line, “Reconcile this!”, which explores the interconnections between reconciliation, art, and activism. She enjoys working in collaboration with artists, scholars, and communities writ large to explore creatively and critically reconciliation discourses. Ayumi is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Communication Studies at Simon Fraser University.
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