community April 09, 2021
By Tessa Perkins Deneault
How is culture connected to language? How is language connected to our imagination, worldview and the land? In September 2019, coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, the premiere of Lisa Jackson’s
Transmissions at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts explored these questions with an immersive, Indigenous futurist multimedia installation that allowed participants to experience Indigenous languages and culture via projection, sculpture, sound, shadow and film.
Following the
Transmissions exhibition, SFU hosted a symposium on Indigenous languages and media in Canada: The Roots of Meaning: A Symposium on Lisa Jackson’s