Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

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 currently enrolled as a PhD student in the Indigenous Governance program at UVIC. I currently hold the  faculty appointment of the Audain Professorship in the visual arts department at UVIC. My artistic practice focuses on Indigenous dance and theatre, land-based dramaturgy, embodiment, 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 practices influenced and shaped by my Haudenosaunee epistemologies and natural law. My solo and community projects intimately converse with the socio-political relationship to land, body, cosmos, identity, eroticism, Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous feminisms to forge artistic pathways towards a liberatory existence for self-actualization and self-determination. I weave culture, art, history, ceremony, healing, spirituality, breath, song, movement, 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.