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 / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake, 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.

“For those three minutes you are a star, and you feel like a star. And the people watching realize that they are watching a star. This performance is guided by those three minutes, and in those minutes we offer the singer a chance to reframe their relationship to colonization and the act of decolonizing in Canada.” — Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick

This exhibition, on view in the Gallery’s vitrine, brings together ephemera and documentation from past performances. The exhibition is open to the public every day from 7 AM to 11 PM on the ground floor of the McConnell Library Building, at 1400 boul. De Maisonneuve W.