Richard William Hill speaks with Cheryl L'Hirondelle and Joseph Naytowhow for: Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework, 2021
Experimentations of the Sensuous Unseen
essay for Lii Zoot Tayr (Other Worlds) exhibition, 2021
Joi T. Arcand's Wayfinding
A continuum of old and new school tagging and teachings, 2019
Already-And: The Art of Indigenous Survivance
in conversation with Keren Zaiontz and Natalie Alvarez, 2019
Deep, Fierce and Interdependent/the Voice that Speaks Itself Fully
in conversation with Rita McKeough, 2018
Shadow Survivance and the Likeness of Beings
essay for the future is the land, 2018
RE:LATING NECESSITY AND INVENTION
How Sara Diamond and The Banff Centre Aided Indigenous New Media Production, 2016
A Circuitous Path of Communicated Physicality and Performance
in conversation with Diana Burgoyne, 2016
Why the Caged Bird Sings
Radical Inclusivity, Sonic Survivance and the Collective Ownership of Freedom Songs, 2015
Residual Proof
an homage to our stolen belongings, 2014
Caricature < = > Chaos: Buffalo Boy's Colonial Blues
a contribution to the legacy, 2014
The Lightness of Creating in the Dark
2014
Oskinikiskwêwak
essay for Joi T. Arcand's exhibition, 2012
CREE++
an intervention of glyphs, 2012
Codetalkers Recounting Signals of Survival
2012
Stories, Songlines and Community
in conversation with Chris Bose and Elwood Jimmy, 2012
Land Project, A Conversation...
in conversation with Joseph Naytowhow and BH Yael, 2011
Write from this Place
in support of poets who teach, 2011
Social & Individual Identity in New Media
a new media dialogue, 2011
Reclaiming Identity: A State of Dignity
essay for Celina Ritter's 1992 exhibition, 2008
You Are Never Just One Thing in One Place: Tricksters and Contrary Spirits
a discussion with Joseph Naytowhow & Richard William Hill, 2007
waciya
a brief story of deception, 2007
Red Giveaway: Linking Butterflies and All My Relations
an homage to the late Mike MacDonald, 2007
What is artinjun.ca?
an FAQ regarding my net.art intervention, 2005
Reflection: SubRosa
Aboriginal Story in Digital Media, 2004
Sounding the Border:
Echoes and Transmissions from the Morley Reserve
Janna Graham in conversation with Cheryl L'Hirondelle & Candice Hopkins, 2004
Tales from the Heart and Spirit
a selection of stories from the elders, 2003
A Dialogue
between Bert McNair, Joseph Naytowhow and Cheryl L'Hirondelle, 2000
Talking Cyber Powwow and Hand Drums
in conversation with Lynne Bell and Janice Williamson, 1999
Remember (Kokum's Bones)
a song in homage of my Halfbreed grandmothers, 1995
Manifesting the Vision of Equity
It's A Cultural Thing, 1993
Minquon Panchayat
update, 1993
Energizing Anti-Racist Strategies In the Artist-run Network
PreMinquon Panchayat Meeting in Toronto, 1993
Indian Art Centre in the Works
Indian art reporting, 1993
Red #6 / Team of Huskies / Enriched White Flour / Herstory...
four early poems, 1992
Red Giveaway: Linking Butterflies and All My Relations
By Cheryl L'Hirondelle
2007
I spend countless hours a day online and in front of a couple of
computer monitors. Whether at home or on the road, I'm always
connected and looking for something personal, meaningful, and
transcendent from this daily repetitive interaction. To keep it
real, an image of my mother and aunties adorns my desktop to
further remind me that I am not alone but connected and related to
real beings. Catching their gaze as they peer at me around an open
browser window, I know I am safe and am cognizant of what, who,
and why I am here…
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Original published as
“red giveaway: linking butterflies and all my relations”,
Blackflash Magazine issue 24.3
Caricature < = > Chaos: Buffalo Boy's Colonial Blues
“Too much monkey business for me to be involved in…”
If chaos is a “behavior so unpredictable as to appear random owing
to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions,” ii then my
recent sighting of Buffalo Boy in downtown Sault Ste Marie was
such a phenomenon. I witnessed this divine creature present a mock
lecture to a group of northern Ontario Indigenous students and
community members during a cabaret at Gallery 180. iii This was
surprising since I was a pallbearer at her highly ritualized last
stand in 2008! iv This reincarnation or apparition was a master
class in the contradictory perfection of chaos…
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To purchase and read the full text from Adrian Stimson:
The Life and Times of Buffalo Boy, edited by David
Garneau, please visit:
https://www.truck.ca/shop/the-life-and-times-of-buffalo-boy
Codetalkers Recounting Signals of Survival
By Cheryl L'Hirondelle
2014
Kayās Māna Kayās (A Long Time Ago)
Following the 1994 international Indigenous think tank at the
Banff Centre for the Arts entitled Drumbeats to Drumbytes, the
late Ahasiw Maskgon-Iskwew noted: “To govern ourselves means to
govern our stories and our ways of telling stories. It means that
the rhythm of the drumbeat, the language of smoke signals and our
moccasin telegraph can be transformed to the airwaves and moderns
of our times. We can determine our use of the new technologies to
support, strengthen and enrich our cultural communities.”1
As a participant and contributor during that event, I would add
that to be truly free and self-governing, we must also acknowledge
and be aware of our pre-contact ingenuity as inventors and
technologists - experts in new media and avatars of innovation…
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To download and purchase OR read the entire text for free,
published in Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New
Media Art, edited by Steven Loft and Kerry Swanson, please visit:
https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781552387061/
Sounding the Border: Echoes and Transmissions from the Morley
Reserve - a conversation
Kayās Māna Kayās (A Long Time Ago)
It is a cold but sunny March afternoon and artist Cheryl
L'Hirondelle is on the side of the TransCanada highway on the
Morley Reserve between Banff and Calgary. She is placing rocks in
patterns that tag the phrase “pe-miyonakwan iskonikan askiy”
(“look at this leftover land”) in Cree syllabics. A trucker honks.
She turns and waves. Two miles away, at the Morley School, a group
of high-school students are rapping, breakdancing, mixing and
broadcasting radio at ten watts - a pirate transmission according
to Canadian regulations.
We are at the apex of Echoes and Transmissions, an ongoing
community project initiated by curator Candice Hopkins with
interdisciplinary artist Cheryl L'Hirondelle. As part of Hopkins'
exhibition A Question of Place at the Walter Philips Gallery (3
April to 23 May, 2004) . L'Hirondelle and Hopkins worked with
community members to stage a number of performative activities,
including audio and video workshops, tagging, a pirate radio
broadcast from the school and ongoing conversations about the
relationship between the reserve and the Banff Centre for the
Arts…
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From
“Sounding the Border: Echoes and Transmissions from the Morley
Reserve - a conversation,"
Fuse Magazine, vol. 27, #4
Reclaiming Identity: A State of Dignity - an Installation by
Celina Ritter
For many Aboriginals in North America, the year 1992 marked a
victory celebration to our continued survival in light of 500
years of colonization.By asserting, proclaiming and authorizing
our complex identities, defending our lands and reclaiming lost
territories - historical, personal and political - many of us
re-discovered and recovered ourselves.
By the time I met Celina Ritter that same year, she was already
halfway towards a Masters degree in painting at Saskatchewan
Indian Federated College, having already graduated from Alberta
College of Art the year before. I was settling into my role as
Programming Coordinator at TRUCK. I can't remember exactly how
Celina and I originally met - in those days there weren't many
native artists or musicians hanging around the art forts. There
were a select few that were already established in the art canon
complete with reviews, solo exhibitions and commercial gallery
representation - Celina's own uncle, the esteemed Alex Janvier was
part of that strata…
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To purchase and read the entire text from the publication
Resonant Dialogues: 25 Years of the Second Story Art Society in
Calgary, please visit: