Sandra Semchuk is a storyteller, photographer and videographer whose inquiry includes small animals that like to count coup on her, coming close enough to make it impossible for her to video them. Her collaborations and video works use the familial, autobiography and dialogue as the basis for recognition and identity across generations, cultures and species.
As a partner in Treaties, member of the settler culture and widow of Cree co-collaborator, James Nicholas, Semchuk works with dialogue to disrupt myths that shape settler relations to First Nations. She considers the more-than human world, flora and fauna to glimpse possible relationships between the indigenous and the non-indigenous. She incorporates lenticular imagery, video including 3D technologies, vocables and overtone singing to converse across constructed boundaries.
Semchuk is completing a book on Ukrainians in Canada:The Stories Were Not Told, Stories and Photographs from Canada’s First Internment Camps, 1914-1920.
