Public Program

‘The Elders Say We Don't Visit Anymore,' a tea and talk with artist Dylan Miner.

Saturday, March 21, 2015 | 2 pm – 4 pm

Join us for ‘The Elders Say We Don't Visit Anymore,' a tea and talk with artist Dylan Miner. Pay-what-you-can admission. 

Based on his work with Indigenous youth and elders across Turtle Island, Wiisaakodewini (Métis) artist Dylan Miner has begun to explore the ‘methodology of visiting,’ an Indigenous way of working.  While conducting an oral history project with retired Anishinaabe autoworkers – incorporated into last year’s Border Cultures: Part 2 – elders shared the idea that we don’t visit as much as we used to.  Because of urbanization and the necessities of wage labour, many Indigenous people do not visit one another was frequently.  In other words, ‘The Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore.’  

As response, Miner wondered what it would mean to simply create a time and place to share tea and conversation within the context of the art gallery, museum, or Indigenous community centre.  It is here that ‘The Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore’ emerges.  Through this particular socially engaged artist practice, Miner organizes a tea time where anyone can stop by to share tea and conversation, creating new and maintaining existing social relationships.  As an aspect of his project in the AGW, Miner will also incorporate beading.  Anyway interested in spending time together, sharing tea and conversation, can stop by the AGW galleries.