A. Wilfrid Johns Gallery
University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building (Wing A)
Artist Residency: January 27 – February 8,
Monday & Friday: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm & 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 1: 30 pm – 4:30 pm
Exhibition: February 9 – 24
Artist talk: Saturday, Feb 8, 2 – 3 pm
The talk will be in the gallery and online.
You can access the Zoom link here. Password: 025896
Description of Project
Unlock the power of art to open doors, expand consciousness, and transform spaces of learning. Walking into Consciousness is a project that invites participants to journey through anti-racist and decolonial approaches, merging creative expression with deep-rooted Indigenous cosmologies. Through participatory, land-based, and ceremonial methodologies, we will collectively explore how art becomes a vehicle for social change, fostering a more inclusive and awakened world.
Bio
My name is Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, I am a Kanienke’haka from Kahnawake. I hold a Master’s degree in Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in the Indigenous Communities Counseling Psychology Program from the University of Victoria. I am a PhD candidate in the Indigenous Governance program at UVIC and currently the Audain Professor in the visual arts. My artistic practice focuses on Indigenous theatre, land-based dramaturgy, site-specific performance art, co-creative collaborative practice, cultural resurgence and social/political activism and decolonial methodologies in art.My artistic philosophy is grounded within Indigenous aesthetic artistic practices influenced and shaped by my Haudenosaunee epistemologies. My solo and community projects intimately converse with the socio-political relationship to land, body, cosmos, identity, Indigenous sovereignty to forge artistic pathways towards a liberatory existence for self-actualization and self-determination. I weave culture, art, history, ceremony, healing, spirituality, breath, song, human development and mindfulness into the tapestry of the creative process to support the re-visioning of Indigenous futurities of hope and beauty. Transcending the intergenerational soul wound through the impasse of the radical creative spirit is what I strive to offer in my work.
Research
The exhibition is part of a research project (Artistic approaches to anti-racism and anti-oppression: Artists and university students engaging in transformative action in a campus gallery)* conducted by Natasha S. Reid, Natalie LeBlanc, and Michelle Wiebe (Assistant Professors, Art Education, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction). This research is investigating how participatory artistic practices can assist in situating a university gallery as a community site for learning about ant-racism and anti-oppression. If you choose to contribute to the artwork in this exhibition, your contributions will be included in the documentation, analysis, and dissemination of the research.
As part of the research, unidentifiable photographs, drawings, and videos of participants will be taken throughout the exhibition. If an identifiable image is accidentally taken, the image will be edited to remove identifying information (i.e., blurring, blocking, or cropping faces) or deleted.
The researchers are also looking for individuals who are interested in participating in a 30- to 45-min. interview or responding to a questionnaire, which will examine their experiences with the exhibition.
You can learn more about this research project by clicking the button below.
If you have any questions about the research project or Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde’s residency, please contact Natasha (natashareid@uvic.ca or 250-721-7896), Natalie (natalieleblanc@uvic.ca or 250-721-7895), or Michelle (mxw@uvic.ca or 250-721-7894).
If you are interested in participating in Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde’s residency, please download the consent form by clicking the button below. After you fill out the form, please contact the research assistant, Shadi Moalem Bajestani, and email it to her at (shadimoalem@uvic.ca).
This residency is part of the Artistic approaches to anti-racism and anti-oppression: Artists and university students engaging in transformative action in a campus gallery which is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
