Hear from renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson as she uses Nishnaabeg consciousness to dismantle the present moment.
Presenting new work, in this talk Leanne uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe consciousness to dismantle the present moment. After three years of pandemic, amplified fascism, freedom convoys, extinct glaciers, police killings, children alone in cages at borders, the resurgence of fascist states, open air prisons for entire peoples, and a dying planet, she is asking herself, what does it mean to, as Rebecca Belmore asks us in her installation Wave Sound, to listen to water? What does it mean, as Dionne Brand writes through her diaspora consciousness and by inventorying the quotidian disasters of our time, in her epic poem Nomenclature, “to believe in water”?
This talk is presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, and SFU’s Office of Aboriginal Peoples.
