Recordings of interviews series

Series consists of original audio recordings (with backups created at the Belkin, subsequent to donation) made by John Gilmore of interviews he conducted in the summer of 1992. The long interview with the artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun covers many topics of interest to the artist but focuses on the work Inherent Rights, Vision Rights.

Inherent Rights, Vision Rights was created in the Virtual Reality Laboratory at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff Alberta in the summer of 1992. Yuxweluptun was the first artist invited to use the cutting-edge facilities at The Banff Centre for the Arts. With no prior computer or virtual reality knowledge, beyond that gleaned from an issue of Scientific American, Yuxwelupton navigated the new technology with assistance from The Banff Centre staff and created a virtual long-house experience in his own style.

Yuxweluptun showed Inherent Rights, Vision Rights alongside two of his paintings in the show Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at The National Gallery, in the fall of 1992.

In addition to Yuxweluptun, Gilmore interviewed several other people about Inherent Rights, Vision Rights: Diana Nemiroff, Robert Houle, and Charlotte Townsend-Gault, co-curators of Land, Spirit, Power; and the programming and technical staff at The Banff Centre who assisted in the production of the work: Michael Century, John Harrison, and Warren Robinette.

Also included is Gilmore's recording of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's artist talk at The National Gallery.