This paper analyses a new media art projection in Winnipeg, Canada. The projection of digital animations visually illustrates the narrative of Sky Woman, a North American indigenous creation myth, and is to be installed over the Assiniboine River at The Forks, a Manitoba tourism and heritage site located in downtown Winnipeg. After projecting the work at the site, the artists intend to share the animated projection via online databases such as YouTube. Given that The Forks is the actual location of the event described in the Sky Woman story, there is a direct and specific relationship imagined between the geographic place that the projection will occupy and its content and form. The various elements of this installation—place, content and form—posit a contemporary indigenous epistemology of place and sited memory, interrupting a fixed sense of place or landscape undergirding Canadian national imaginaries.
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