Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
Performance site: X – Sandy Cove Beach, Elliston
Saturday, August 19
11 AM
Bonavista Biennale and MOMENTA Biennale de l’image have partnered to co-commission a new performance work by Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde. Sturgeon Woman Rising draws upon the livelihood of the sturgeon, an ancient being that has maintained its survivance across many bodies of water for over 200 million years. Atlantic Sturgeon populations, which are currently threatened, range from the St. Lawrence River to Western Newfoundland and up the coast of Labrador. The performance will take place both in the water and on the land, incorporating movement, breath and sound.
Audience notes: the performance will take place on the east side of Sandy Cove Beach. Audience members will be invited to sit or stand during the performance, which will be ~20 minutes in duration. Please bring your own blanket, cushion or beach chair, as you prefer. There is a rocky incline down to the beach. Parking is available onsite, and the performance can also be viewed from the lot.
Sturgeon Woman Rising is co-commissioned by Bonavista Biennale and MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal. The performance will be also be presented as part of MOMENTA (September 7 – October 22, 2023).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde is Kanienke’haka from Kahnawake. She 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, where she is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the Applied Theatre program. Delaronde’s artistic practice focuses on Indigenous theatre, land-based dramaturgy, eco-somatics, site-specific performance art, and co-creative collaborative practice. Her artistic philosophy is grounded within Indigenous aesthetics and influenced and shaped by her Haudenosaunee epistemologies and natural law. Delaronde’s solo and community projects explore socio-political relationships to land, body, cosmos, identity, Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous feminisms, forging artistic pathways towards a liberatory existence for self-actualization and self-determination.
Sturgeon Woman Rising credits