Exhibitions
Urban Screen, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Somewhere We Have Travelled
Zachery Longboy and Nova Weipert
Curated by Leanne Inuarak-Dall and Vance Wright
Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to partner with the Aboriginal Gathering Place on an Urban Screen programme as part of the exhibition, Somewhere We Have Travelled (February 2–March 7, 2026) This second installment features Zachery Longboy’s Guardian of Sleep and Nova Weipert’s #SearchTheLandfill.
Born from a dream Longboy had where he led a parade out of the forest, Guardian of Sleep is a layered, collaged, digital diary of filmed and found footage, animations, and performance. Just as in dreams themselves, these fragments manipulate, twist, and morph into each other. Moving through Longboy’s dream space, one can’t help but wonder—‘what did last night’s slumber tell you?’
#SearchTheLandfill is an experimental short film that weaves together Indigenous resilience and strength while calling attention to the systemic racism and injustices maintained by colonialism. Highlighting the inaction of the Manitoba government, the film serves as an emotional call to action to protect our stolen relatives.
The 2026 Aboriginal Gathering Place Exhibition, Somewhere We Have Travelled, was on view from February 20 – March 7, 2026, in the Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons. The exhibition was curated by Leanne Inuarak-Dall and Vance Wright and placed special emphasis on Indigenous alumni, students, staff and faculty as part of ECU’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
For the first installment of Somewhere We Have Travelled on the Urban Screen featured Theo Jean Cuthand’s Medicine and Magic, and Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delarond’s Gemini: TEKENÍKHEN (twins) and screened from February 20–May 12, 2026.
BIOGRAPHIES
Zachery Cameron Longboy is a video maker, performance/installation artist. Born in Churchill, Manitoba of Sayisi Dene lineage, Longboy places his multiple identities as a White-adopted/Native gay/Two-Spirit/Sixties Scoop survivor at the centre of his multi-disciplinary practice. His intensely felt, layered videos often use his complex performance-installations as a departure point. Longboy is nationally honoured and widely shown in Queer and Indigenous venues, as well as in public collections including The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum (Calgary), and The Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa). Numerous screenings include The Edmonton Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), and Images Independent Festival.
Red Buffalo Nova Weipert (he/him/they/them) is an Anishinaabe Ojibwe Two-Spirit and transgender interdisciplinary artist, writer, director, educator and storyteller. Nova is a proud enrolled member of the Pinaymootang First Nation located in Treaty 2 territory and is a recent graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2022). As an interdisciplinary artist, they weave together a multiplicity of digital and traditional mediums such as video, photography, sound, illustration, beading, performance, and storytelling in exploring/experimenting with new modes of representation through the lens of their Anishinaabe Ojibwe lived and felt experiences. They are a long time collaborator and video mentor with Access to Media Education Society. Their film work has screened at festivals such as imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (2021) and Vancouver Queer Film Festival (2022). They have worked as a sessional professor and as a studio technician in the Film + Screen Arts department at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
