Exhibitions
URBAN SCREEN, EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN
Somewhere We Have Travelled
Theo Jean Cuthand and Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
Urban Screen, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to partner with the Aboriginal Gathering Place on an Urban Screen programme. Part of the exhibition, Somewhere We Have Travelled, this programme consists of four video works and will run in two installments. Theo Jean Cuthand’s Medicine and Magic and Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delarond’s Gemini: TEKENÍKHEN (twins) will screen from February 20–April 14, and Zachery Longboy’s Guardian of Sleep and Nova Weipert’s #SearchTheLandfill will screen from June 1–August 3.
Cuthand’s Medicine and Magic (2020), a two-channel video exploring nehiyaw medicine and Scottish folk magic, re-interprets events that occurred to the artist’s Great Grandfather, Misatimwas, and a potential Scottish relative who did not survive the Witch Trials that took place between the 16th and 18th centuries.
In Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde’s Gemini: TEKENÍKHEN (twins) (2023), the artist conducts a ceremony in the forest: piling wood to exhaustion, spreading ashes onto her body, and finally, eating a single strawberry as nourishment. Katsitsakatste Delaronde’s laboured movements model the strengthening of body and mind in search of purpose.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The 2026 Aboriginal Gathering Place Exhibition, Somewhere We Have Travelled, will be on view from February 20 to March 7 in the Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons. This year’s exhibition has a special emphasis on Indigenous alumni, students, staff and faculty as part of ECU’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Theo Jean Cuthand grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He makes films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity and love, gender, and Indigeneity. Theo Jean’s work has been screened in festivals internationally and exhibited at galleries including: the MoMA in NYC, The National Gallery in Ottawa, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He completed his BFA majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005, and his Masters of Arts in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. He has performed at: Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina, and 7A*11D in Toronto. He is also a 2019 Whitney Biennial artist. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. Theo Jean is credited with coining the word Indigiqueer.
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde is a Kanienke’haka woman from Kahnawake. For the past 13 years she has been a grateful, active and contributing guest on Lkwungen territory, Victoria, BC. Lindsay holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in the Indigenous Communities Counseling Psychology Program from the University of Victoria. She iscurrently enrolled in a PhD in Applied Theatre at the University of Victoria. Her areas of research are Contemporary and Traditional First Nations visual art, Indigenous performance practices, expressive arts therapy examining decolonial methodologies in art. Lindsay’s artistic practice focuses on spirituality, embodiment, ritual, Indigenous theatre, land-based/site-specific performance art, collaborative practice, cultural resurgence and social/political activism through the arts. Her artistic mediums include photography, performance/theatre, movement/dance and visual studio arts.
URBAN SCREEN
Located outdoors in the ECU campus’ southeastern plaza, the Urban Screen is a public art initiative of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program in partnership with Libby LeshgoldGallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Urban Screen spotlights local and international artists and filmmakers working across diverse media disciplines of art, design, media, and technology. The screen operates daily from 8 AM–9 PM.
