Publications on Leila Sujir’s art and research
Chatterjee, Mortimer. Moving Focus, India, New Perspectives on Modern & Contemporary Art. Mumbai, India: The Shoestring Publisher, 2022 [Peacocks Dream].
TechLab: Experiments in media art 1999-2019. Vancouver: Surrey Art Gallery, 2022 [India Heats Beat and Forest Breath].
Sivanesan, Haema. “Unsettling the Picturing of the Canadian Old Growth Forest: Consent, Consultation and (Re)conciliation in Leila Sujir’s Forest!”Transcultural Studies Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021 [Forest!, Forest Breath and Aerial]. Read it here.
Tousley, Nancy and Haema Sivanesan, Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists in the 1980’s. Edmonton, Art Gallery of Alberta, 2020 [India Hearts Beat].
Jesse Cummings, “Outer Worlds,” Canadian Art, May 23rd, 2019 [Aerial]. Read it here.
Tousley, Nancy, “Leila Sujir’s forest of pixels,” Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts (Calgary: University of Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Spring 2019) [Forest!, now forest documents, Aerial and Forest Breath]. Read it here.
Suleman, Zool. “Longing and Belonging: 1990’s South Asian Film and Video,” Rungh for Doxa Festival, May 2019 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners]. See the video clip here.
Shrumm, Regan, “Report on Forest Breath: a portrait in progress,” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria magazine, September 1, 2018.
Luna, John, “Into the Woods: a review of ‘Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest,'” Canadian Art (June 6, 2018) [Forest Breath]. Read it here.
Devlin, Mike, “Artists explore the forests and what lies ahead,” Times Colonist, May, 2018 [Forest Breath]. Read it here.
Glenzter, Molly, “Four of FotoFest’s dazzling displays focus on Indian portraiture,” Houston Chronicle (April 13, 2018) [PeacocksDream]. Read it here.
Evans, Steve and Sunil Gupta, INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art (Houston and Amsterdam: Fotofest and Schilt Publishing, 2018) [Peacocks Dream].
Interview for series of podcasts for the South Asian Visual Arts (SAVAC) Archive project, Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project (Fall 2017). audio podcast here.
Mitra, Shrimoyee (ed), Border Cultures. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing/Art Gallery of Windsor, 2016 [Tulipomania].
Kjorlien, Melanie (ed), Made in Calgary: An Exploration of Art from 1960 to the 2000’s. Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow 2016 [Tulipomania and My Two Grandmothers].
Jacques, Michelle, Chorus of Lungs. Vancouver: Centre A Gallery for Contemporary Asian Art, 2013.
Grgar, Sonja, “Collective breath: 3D video installation invites interactive reflection,” The Source, December/January 2014 [Chorus of Lungs].
Griffiths, Kevin, “A Chorus of Lungs Breathes Life into Centre A,” Vancouver Sun, November 27, 2013 [Chorus of Lungs].
Mitra, Shrimoyee, “On Border Cultures,” Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy, Summer/Autumn 2013, 212-217 [Tulipomania].
Dumas, Chantal, “Video Interview with Leila Sujir, Chronicle: In the studio,” dpi Studio XX on-line journal (#13, October 2008). ADA-X archive post here.
McCluskey, Audrey, T., Edward Mapp, Frame by Frame III: a Filmography of the African Diasporan image, 1994-2004. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007 [For Jackson: A Time Capsule].
Ainslie, Patricia, and Mary-Beth Laviolette, Alberta Art and Artists. Calgary: Fifth House, 2007 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Hameed, Ayesha, and Tamara Vukov, “Animating Exclusions: Ali Kazimi’s ‘Continuous Journey’ and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion,” Topia, Spring 2007 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Laviolette, Mary-Beth, An Alberta Art Chronicle: an adventure in recent and contemporary art. Canmore: Altitude Publishing, 2006.
Evenden, Kirstin, Leila Sujir: My Two Grandmothers RMX and Tulipomania.1, Day-old Venice. Calgary: Art Gallery of Calgary, 2006.
Robson, Ken, “Review—For Jackson,” Alberta Views, Fall 2004 [For Jackson: A Time Capsule].
Cronin, R. “Review—Luminous Stories, Daily Gleaner, June 19, 1999.
Asselin, Olivier, “Libertés Fondamentales. Perspectives Vidéo sur les Droits de la Personne,” Parachute 93, January-March 1999 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Ghaznavi, Corinna, Feminist Practices: Lateral Moves. Toronto: A Space, 1999 [Luminous Wallpapers and Archival Moments].
Ylitalo, Katherine, Leila Sujir– Luminous Stories. Peterborough: Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1999.
Murphy, Sarah, “Interview with Leila Sujir,” Canadian Theatre Review, Spring 1998 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Beauchamp, Elizabeth, “Art of this Place,” Alberta Views, Summer 1998 [Working Portraits].
Mandel, Charles, “To the Cleaners,” Edmonton Journal, November 17, l995 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Tousley, Nancy, “Mixed Media,” Canadian Art, Fall 1995 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Hobson, Louis, Review of The Dreams of the Night Cleaners, Calgary Sun, May 22 1995 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Tousley, Nancy, “Artist Gives Television New Look,” Calgary Herald, May 26, 1995 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Parameswaran, Uma, “Dispelling the Spells of Memory: Another Approach to Reading Our Yesterdays,” in Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments. Editor, Monika Fludernik. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994 [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Rabinovitz, Lauren, Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1991 with 2nd edition, 2003 [on Sujir’s work on Joyce Wieland].
Baert, Renee, “Subjects on the Threshold: Problems with the Pronouns,” Mirror Machine: Video and Identity, Toronto/Montreal: YYZ Books & McGill University, 1995, and in Parachute #69, January/March 1993 [India Hearts Beat].
Tousley, Nancy, “Review of ‘Screens: Amantea, Aziz, Stone, Sujir,'” Canadian Art, Winter l992 [Working Portraits].
Godard, Barbara, “Liminaire: Une éthique de la différence raciale/Liminaire: Access, Responsibility,” Tessera, Summer 1992 [Discussion of My Mother’s Eggplant Story & The Dreams of the Night Cleaners].
Carrière, Daniel, “à la découverte des Amériques,” Le Devoir, 29 août, l992 [Archival Moments].
Clark, Kerry, Review of “Screens,” VOX, July 1992 [Working Portraits].
Tousley, Nancy, “Review of ‘Screens: Amantea, Aziz, Stone, Sujir,'” The Calgary Herald, July 23, l992, Section C1 [Working Portraits].
Ylitalo, Katherine, Screens: Amantea, Aziz, Stone, Sujir. Calgary: Nickle Arts Museum, 1992 [Working Portraits].
Carrière, Daniel, “Le retour en force du vidéothéâtre,” Le Devoir, 26 mars l992.
Murphy, Sarah, Review of My Two Grandmothers,” Fuse, Spring 1992 [My Two Grandmothers].
Tourangeau, Jean, “La Vidéo dans le Monde: De la vidéo-outil à la vidéo-icône,” in a special issue, Les yeux fertile: Bilan cinématographique et vidéographique 1989, in les herbes rouges, (no. 184-185), 1990 [India Hearts Beat].
Ylitalo, Katherine, “Calgary–Diversity in the Visual Arts,” Alberta Culture Visual Arts Newsletter, February 1990.
Handa, Amita, “Desh: Pardesh: South Asian Culture in the Diaspora,” Fuse, Summer 1990.
Murphy, Sarah, “Within and Without–Reconstructing Regional Identity”, Fuse, April 1990 [interview on The Heart of the Heart of the Regions exhibition].
Tousley, Nancy, “Glenbow Explores Video Art,” Calgary Herald, December 1989.
Notar, Cleo, “cinéma Femmes/5th Festival International de Films et Vidéo Montréal,” Cinema Canada, October 1989.
Tousley, Nancy, “Video West Exhibition,” Calgary Herald, September 22, 1989.
Bociurkiw, Marusia, “Review of India Hearts Beat,” Fuse, August 1989 [India Hearts Beat].
Murphy, Sarah, “At the Limit of Narrative: Two Tapes from EM/Media” Video Guide, December 1988 [Vacation/Vacances].
Paterson, Andy, “On Images ’88” Cinema Canada, September 1988 [Buck–When I Was a Cowboy].
Kibbins, Gary, “How the West Was Wonderful,” Fuse, September 1988 [Buck–When I Was a Cowboy].
Barbour, Sharon, “Applications,” Dinosaur Review, Fall 1985 [“There is a She Still Moving in the Story”].
Murphy, Sarah, “The World Between Subject and Object,” CSIF Film Journal, Summer 1983 [Technologically Native].