Tending Otherworlds

July 14 - September 24, 2023

For this exhibition we highlight a notion of queerness, calling upon writer bell hooks’ invitation to think of “queer as not being about who you’re having sex with—that can be a dimension of it—but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” Bringing together a selection of recent gifts and purchases, the exhibition demonstrates the Burnaby Art Gallery’s challenge to the boundaries of its mandate as the only public art museum in Canada dedicated to works of art on paper. Further, the works presented offer vantage points which diverge from dominant understandings of place and history.

For more information, see:

https://www.burnaby.ca/recreation-and-arts/arts-and-culture-facilities/burnaby-art-gallery/exhibitions/ghostly-makers-and-tending-otherworlds

Tanya Lukin Linklater

Fall 2023 Artist-in-Residence

Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Oct 31 – Nov 5, 2023

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s performances, works for camera, installations, and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance, and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry and rehearsal in relation to scores and ancestral belongings.

During her Artist-in Residence visit to campus, artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater will lead a series of open rehearsals with dance artists, Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert. These sessions, Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth, respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The public is invited to view the in-situ, unfolding processes of embodiment, gesture, and sensation. 

She will also be visiting with classes and Indigenous students on campus. *Please contact Laurie Macfee for more info about scheduling a class visit on site during Tanya’s performances. Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Artist-in-Residence visit is organized and sponsored by the Arts Research Center, with co-sponsorship from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Townsend Center for the Humanities. 

For more information, see:

https://arts.berkeley.edu/visiting-artists/

Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth.

November 1-4, 2023

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94720

Cosponsored by the Art Research Center

A series of open rehearsals with dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, led by artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater, these sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside. Patrons are invited to view the in situ, unfolding processes of embodiment, gesture, and sensation.

Tanya Lukin Linklater is the Art Research Center’s Fall 2023 artist-in-residence. Her performance Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. is presented by Arts Research Center in collaboration with BAMPFA, and co-sponsored by Theater, Dance & Performance Studies and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Wednesday, Nov 1, 2023

3:00 PM–7:00 PM
BAMPFA

Thursday, Nov 2, 2023

3:00 PM–7:00 PM
BAMPFA

Friday, Nov 3, 2023

2:00 PM–5:00 PM
BAMPFA

Saturday, Nov 4, 2023

2:00 PM–5:00 PM
BAMPFA

For more information, see:

https://bampfa.org/event/ewako-oma-askiy-then-earth

The 2023 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes/Les Prix Johanna-Metcalf des Arts de la scène 2023

Celebrating Ontario’s leading creators in the performing arts

The Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes/Les Prix Johanna-Metcalf des Arts de la scène (Johannas) is one of the largest unrestricted prizes for artists in Ontario, celebrating mid-career and early-career artists across multiple disciplines.

For the 2023 Johannas, 15 finalists have been selected from across Ontario in the disciplines of dance, theatre, and music/opera, including artists who are working in the spaces between and across these disciplines.

From the 15 finalists, five winners will be selected who will each receive a prize of $25,000. Each winner will name a protégé who will be awarded $10,000 as a way of celebrating early career artists who are showing formidable promise. Starting this year, each of the remaining 10 finalists will receive a prize of $2,000, bringing the total value of the prizes to $195,000.

Established in 2019 and named in honour of Johanna Metcalf — who was at the heart of the Metcalf Foundation’s work for over 40 years — the biennial prizes amplify her legacy as a passionate supporter of the arts and artists, and is delivered in partnership with the Ontario Arts Council.

Nominees for the 2023 Johannas were selected by peers in partnership with the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) through over 20 juried OAC competitions in dance, music/opera, and theatre, as well as competitions focused on Francophone, Indigenous, and Northern communities. Artists who have been producing and showing work over a period of at least 10 years were eligible to be nominated.

The 15 finalists for the 2023 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes/Les Prix Johanna-Metcalf des Arts de la scène are:

Keith Barker, theatre director, playwright, and actor
Sina Bathaie, composer and musician
Sid Bobb, multidisciplinary artist
Emily Cheung, choreographer
Penny Couchie, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist
Alain Doom, playwright and actor
John Kameel Farah, composer and pianist
ShoShona Kish, songwriter
Tanya Lukin Linklater, multidisciplinary artist
Natasha Powell, choreographer and dancer
Suba Sankaran, composer and musician
Roydon Tse, composer
Vineet Vyas, tabla artist
Mandy Woo, composer
Sashar Zarif, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist

The 2023 finalist jurors were: Tova Arbus, President of Fringe North; Herbie Barnes, Artistic Director of Young People’s Theatre; iskwē, musician and 2021 Johannas winner; Umair Jaffar, Executive Director of Small World Music; Ange Loft, Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre; Karine Ricard, Artistic Director of Théâtre français de Toronto; and Heidi Strauss, Artistic Director of adelheid dance projects.

For more information, please see:

https://metcalffoundation.com/johannas/

Tanya Lukin Linklater, Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth.

July 25, 2023 - July 28, 2023

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. is a series of rehearsals open to the public with dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, led by artist and choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater. Occurring intermittently throughout the day, with no explicit schedule, these sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside. Through dance-making, Lukin Linklater’s project invites the public to view the unfolding processes of embodiment, gesture, and sensation. 

Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. is organized by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, and Nolan Jimbo, Assistant Curator.

https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/live-art-tanya-lukin-linklater-ewako-oma-askiy-this-then-is-the-earth/

Aerial Skin

June 12 and 13, 2023 

PHI Foundation

465 Saint-Jean Street, G5 Space
Montréal, Québec H2Y 2R6

Yutong Lin, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Kent Monkman, Pedro Neves Marques, Kim Ninkuru, Jacolby Satterwhite

This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Terms of Use presented at the PHI Foundation from March 8 to July 9, 2023.

Curator: Victoria Carrasco

For more information: https://phi.ca/en/events/aerial-skin/

Talk | Politics of Poetics: Layli Long Soldier and Tanya Lukin Linklater

July 27, 20236:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Edlis Neeson Theater, MCA Chicago

Join us for a reading by poet Layli Long Soldier and post-conversation with artist Tanya Lukin Linklater in conjunction with the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside and the new program series Politics of Poetics.

About the Series

Politics of Poetics is a new quarterly program series held in the MCA’s Edlis Neeson Theater that highlights today’s leading poets whose practices traverse the political through writing, teaching, and activism. The series invites poets from across the globe to give readings and be in conversation with artists and other thinkers about the themes in their work. Historically, poets and visual artists have benefitted from close collaboration and artistic exchange, sharing in technical approaches and critical ideas of the day. Like many of the artists exhibited at the MCA, these poets take up critical issues in their work while propelling voices, stories, and thoughts under-seen and under-regarded in traditional canons.

For more information, please see:

https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/talk-politics-of-poetics-layli-long-soldier-and-tanya-lukin-linklater/

Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She is a mentor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s performances, works for camera, installations, and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance, and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry and rehearsal in relation to scores and ancestral belongings. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. In summer 2024 her iterative solo exhibition, My mind is with the weather, will be presented at the Wexner Centre for the Arts. Her first collection of poetry, Slow Scrape, was published in the Documents series by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism, Montréal in 2020 with a second edition published by Talonbooks, Vancouver in 2022.

On scores. On bringing weather to the museum.
Tanya Lukin Linklater will read from her collection of poetry and event scores, Slow Scrape, and describe her practice in relation to weather and the museum.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, 204, The Banff Centre
3 pm - 4:30 pm 

https://www.banffcentre.ca/events/visual-arts-open-talk-tanya-lukin-linklater/20230517/1500