Abstract
Performance artists Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin poetically reflect on one of their intense performances. In their interrogation about the intersections between temporality, body, and land, Goto and Morin articulate the ephemerality of performance through a simultaneously visceral and theoretical lens. The text ponders on the often unspoken experiences of intercultural relationships, which exist beyond binary narratives of European colonial contact with indigenous peoples and the “origins story” in the birth of the Canadian nation-state. The text concomitantly refers to the decolonization of modern linear notions of time and tempo, problematizing the metanarrative constructs that shape our experience of history.
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Goto, A., Morin, P. (2017). Writing. First. Contacts?. In: Beauchesne, K., Santos, A. (eds) Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1_5
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