of Victoria
MFA (UVic)
Indigenous theatre, land-based/site-specific performance art, collaborative practice, cultural resurgence and social/political activism through the arts, healing and decolonization
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 Applied Theatre program at UVIC. My artistic practice focuses on Indigenous theatre, land-based dramaturgy, site-specific performance art, co-creative collaborative practice, cultural resurgence and social/political activism and decolonial methodologies in art. My multi-media disciplines include: photography, leatherwork, beadwork, textiles, screen-printing performance/theatre, embodiment/dance. My artistic philosophy is grounded within Indigenous aesthetic artistic practices influenced and shaped by my Haudenosaunee epistemologies. My solo and community projects intimately converse with the socio-political relationship to land, body, cosmos, identity, 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, 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.