Created by Lisa Jackson

 

Produced by Electric Company Theatre in association with Violator Films

World Premiere: Sep 6-28, 2019 - SFU Woodward's, MST Territories/Vancouver

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An Indigenous Futurist Installation

Transmissions is a three-part, 6000 square foot multimedia installation by award-winning Anishinaabe filmmaker and artist Lisa Jackson. It extends her investigation into the connections between land, language, and people, most recently with her virtual reality work Biidaaban: First Light.

Projections, sculpture, and film combine to create urban and natural landscapes that are eerie and beautiful, familiar and foreign, concrete and magical. Past and future collide in a visceral and thought-provoking journey that questions our current moment and opens up the complexity of thought systems embedded in Indigenous languages. Radically different from European languages, they embody sets of relationships to the land, to each other, and to time itself.

Transmissions invites us to untether from our day-to-day world and imagine a possible future. It provides a platform to activate and cross-pollinate knowledge systems, from science to storytelling, ecology to linguistics, art to commerce. To begin conversations, to listen deeply, to engage varied perspectives and expertise, to knit the world together and find our place within the circle of all our relations.

Photo Credit: Rachel Topham

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Produced in association with Violator Films

In partnership with SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs, supported by the SFU Aboriginal Strategic Initiative and SFU Aboriginal Reconciliation Council.

With support from Canada Council for the Arts (New Chapter: 2017 and Beyond), Moving Images Distribution, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council/City of Toronto, Colours & Shapes, McMedia Audiovisual Services, McMaster University/The Socrates Project, The Hamber Foundation