CHERYL L'HIRONDELLE

Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and Grunt Gallery



Feb 7, 2009 2pm


NOTE VENUE CHANGE: Celebration Hall Mountainview Cemetery 5445 Fraser Street

nikamon ohci askiy (song land for/from/of the) explores the relationship between sound, space and identity. By creating a “performative map,” Cheryl L’Hirondelle will negotiate a journey through new territory, developing a nomadic relationship with the land. Her actions/singing will be in direct response to her encounters within the territory—the physical environment she finds herself in and its inhabitants. These encounters will be captured by whatever technologies are available (audio, visual etc.) and then integrated into a website that documents her nomadic treks. By using cell phone photography and technologies that will automatically upload these to the site, online viewers have a constantly updated travelogue of her experiences.

Using web 2.0 capabilities, RSS feeds, mms (multi-media messaging service), wifi and camera phones, audio and video data will be instantly uploaded to a website that will mark places with still photographs, sound, and video feed. This final performance celebrates the release of the DVD documentation of this grunt gallery-commissioned piece.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Waynohtêw, Cheryl Koprek) is a Vancouver-based multi-disciplinary artist. L’Hirondelle’s artistic practice draws from her Métis, Cree and European cultural hybridity and explores the intersections of Cree world-view (nêhiyawin) and the creative expressions of other indigenous, world and youth cultures.

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