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Leah Decter
Leah Decter is an inter-media artist/scholar based in Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, and a Canada Research Chair in Creative Technologies at NSCAD University in K’jipuktuk (Halifax). Working from a critical white settler perspective her research and artistic practices address pedagogical and social-spatial dynamics in settler colonial contexts through the ethics of being-in-relation in spaces of Indigenous sovereignty. Decter has exhibited, presented and screened her artwork widely in Canada, and internationally in the US, UK, Germany, Malta, Netherlands, India, and Australia. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation, Canadian Theatre Review, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies and Fuse Magazine’s Decolonial Aesthetics Issue among other publications. Decter holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queens University, an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at York University (2019-2020).
Contact: NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada