How do you define your culture, stories, and placement in the community when you have never comfortably sat in the chairs or at the table, not knowing if you are sitting with true cultural specificity that the creator had intended?
As a Survivor of the Sixties scoop (Canada’s action to remove Indigenous children from their families and communities). I have struggled with community and where I belong. I am Sayisi Dene from Northern Manitoba, knowing where you’re from doesn’t equate to belonging.
This is my journey of belonging.
Artist Bio: Zachery C Longboy is a Video maker, performance/installation artist. Born in Churchill, Manitoba of Sayisi Dene lineage, Longboy places his multiple identities as a white-adopted, indigenous, Two-Spirited, HIV+ Man at the centre of his multi-disciplinary practice. His intensely felt, hybridly layered videos often use his complex performance installations as a departure point. His works concentrate most on the clash of his indigenous heritage with his white cultural environment. Longboy is nationally honoured, widely shown in private and public collections. The Surrey Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Glenbow Museum (Calgary), The Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa). Numerous screenings include The Edmonton Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Images Independent Film and Video Festival
Videography:
” From another time comes one, into a new time becomes a brother” 10:00 min. 1990
“eating lunch” 10:00 min. 1992
”Choose Your Plague” (with Paul Lang, 1993
“living tree” 00:30 sec. 1993
“water into fire” 11:00 min 1999
“confirmation of my sins” 10:30 min. 1996
“the stone show” 10:00 min. 2000
”rapture”(with Justin Ducharme) 14 min. 2021
“Guardian of sleep 11:13 min ”2022*
“RUNNING” 4:03 min“2023”
“Wonderland” 7:58 min “2024”
“Appleseed Family Reunion” 2:03 min. “2024”
“HOST” 10 min “2024
Artist Socials: zacherycameronlongboy@instagram.com
Studio Name: Zachery Cameron Longboy
Other Credits: N/A