I've added a PDF catalogue of Slay All Day, 2018 at ma ma gallery. This catalogue includes poems by the artist and curatorial essays by curators, Magdalyn Asimakis and Heather Rigg, respectively. Please find the link under Solo Exhibitions on the main page.
Soundings, An Exhibition in Five Parts at the Agnes Etherington in Kingston, Ontario is co-curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson and opens January 5, 2019. Soundings artists include Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez, Sebastian De Line, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Kite, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Ogimaa Mikana, Peter Morin, Lisa C. Ravensbergen, Heidi Senungetuk, Olivia Whetung and Tania Willard.
"The scores take the form of video, objects, graphic notation, museological objects, and written instructions. At different moments during the exhibition these scores are activated by musicians, dancers, performers and members of the public, gradually filling the gallery and surrounding public spaces with sound and action."
The curators and I have worked with Manitoba Museum to install a Mckenzie-Delta Inuvialuit rain gut parka in the Agnes Etherington for the exhibition. This cultural belonging is a part of the HBC Collection at the Manitoba Museum. I visited the rain gut parka in September, 2018. In relation to the rain gut parka is a text work I've made.
https://agnes.queensu.ca/exhibition/soundings-an-exhibition-in-five-parts/
Soundings is accompanied by a postcard publication of scores designed by Sébastien Aubin and a public listening series entitled “Against Hungry Listening,” as well as public art installations.
The rain gut parka will become a score for a performance I am developing with dancers, Ceinwen Gobert and Danah Rosales, and composer/musician, Laura Ortman through an open rehearsal process. This new performance will be presented at the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 2:00 pm. The open rehearsal times and dates can be found here:
https://agnes.queensu.ca/event/details/open-rehearsals/
The information regarding the performance can be found here:
https://www.queensu.ca/theisabel/content/niigaani-gichigami-oniatar%C3%ADio
Carleton University Art Gallery has published a free PDF catalogue of In Dialogue featuring text by exhibition organizer, John G. Hampton, David Garneau and Nadia Myre.
In Dialogue featured artists, Raymond Boisjoly, Raven Davis, David Garneau, Carola Grahn, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Amy Malbeuf, Peter Morin, Nadia Myre, Native Art Department International, Krista Belle Stewart and Nicole Kelly Westman.
You can access the PDF here:
I wrote a small series of event scores and poems for Mary Ann Barkhouse's exhibition, The Interlopers, at McLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario. The publication can be found here:
https://maclarenart.com/project/mary-anne-barkhouse-the-interlopers-2/
Art for a New Understanding, Native Voices 1950s to Now
Co-curated by Mindy Besaw, Candice Hopkins and Manuella Well-Off-Man
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
October 6, 2018 - January 7, 2019
The exhibition features over 80 artworks from the 1950s to today, including paintings, photography, video, sculptures, performance art, and more, all created by Indigenous US and Canadian artists. A full colour catalogue was produced by University of Arkansas Press.
As a part of Art for a New Understanding, Native Voices 1950s to Now, I produced a video installation, Untitled (for Sonya Kelliher-Combs), Part 1 in repsonse to Sonya Kelliher-Combs' work, Orange Curl, 2012. The video features Tessa Pizzale, Mina Linklater, Sassa Linklater, Keisha Stone, and myself. It was shot and edited by Neven Lochhead.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art commissioned a performance, Untitled (for Sonya Kelliher-Combs), Part 2, for the exhibition. Through a series of open rehearsals, dancers, Ceinwen Gobert, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, and I made a performance within the installation. This work was subsequently performed 6 times November 10 and 11, 2018.
On November 9, I also performed a reading of original event scores and poems and showed video works for the Performance Lab alongside Elisa Harkins and Matriarch.
Crystal Bridges produced a short video about my work here:
https://crystalbridges.org/blog/artistatcb-tanya-lukin-linklater/?fbclid=IwAR0bXVQkDlJaPGT3Z8i0TzskcfHb0JKKhyRYyussr2NUuzkDuk6JfLck5QY
After the exhibtion at Crystal Bridges, Art for a New Understanding will travel to:
Museum of Contemporary Native Art (MoCNA), Santa Fe, New Mexico
January 25, 2019 – July 19, 2019
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina
August 22, 2019 – January 5, 2020
and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
Curated by Danielle Printup
September 22, 2018 - January 06, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, November 2, 7-10pm
Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Artists:
Scott Benesiinaabandan, Hannah Claus, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Meryl McMaster, and Greg Staats
In Anishnaabemowin, inaabiwin means “movement of light” and is used to describe lightning. Indigenous peoples embody a relational approach to understanding and interacting with the world which allows them to engage more deeply through complex relationships with themselves and the natural world. Through colonization, this way of being and knowing has been compromised.
The artists in this exhibition use their varied art practices to reclaim these ways of being and knowing, hoping to restore compromised connections and encourage audiences to follow. As we seek to understand our place in the world, relearning these relations is essential, and will help us navigate today’s challenges and thrive on the lands we call home.
Indigenous and non-Indigenous viewers will be encouraged to think about and feel their own relations and how they connect to larger worldviews. This project will be guided by Indigenous voices through researched texts, as well as through conversations and visits with respected knowledge keepers.
Inaabiwin is also a metaphor for the work of the artists presented in this exhibition, who have remarkably profound and active practices that each evoke a strong visceral response.
Art Gallery of Mississauga: June 20 – September 1, 2019
Ottawa Art Gallery: October, 2019 – January, 2020
Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery: February 7 – May 3, 2020
Please see a video produced by Robert McLaughlin Gallery about the exhibition:
I am honoured to be presenting a keynote talk, Gestures that remember and insist, at Maamwizing 2018: Pursuing Indigenous Research in a Good Way at Laurentian University. I am speaking in the midst of Indigenous intellectuals and community members who are deeply committed to Indigenous life, land and ways of being. My talk takes place Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 9:00 am.
https://laurentian.ca/faculty/arts/indigenous-affairs/maamwizing
FALL EXHIBITIONS AT MA MA
Slay All Day: Tanya Lukin Linklater
September 21-October 15, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday September 20, 6-9pm
Artist talk with Tanya Lukin Linklater: Friday September 21, 6pm
Tanya Lukin Linklater, Slay All Day (still), 2016. HD video for web (silent), 4:16. Courtesy of the artist.
ma ma is pleased to present Slay All Day: Tanya Lukin Linklater, the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in Toronto.
Slay All Day delves into Lukin Linklater’s practice through the adjacency of three works, each centred on the Indigenous female body, movement, and knowledge transmission. In Slay All Day (2016) contemporary dance is informed by gestures from Robert Flaherty’s problematic 1922 film Nanook of the North and Inuit athletics. These two sources have a dialectic relationship that resonates with the work’s presentation as a diptych, and the dancer’s traditional versus contemporary dance attire. Silent due to cultural protocols, the video The treaty is in the body (2017) centres on Omaskeko Cree families in North Bay, Ontario who gather to discuss the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through orality and understandings of treaty through the body. Finally, Lukin Linklater will create a site-specific installation of her text work A Girl (2012), that was written in response to the attempted assassination of girls’ education activist, Malala Yousafzai, in the region of Swat Valley, Pakistan. Together, these works create dialogue about intimacy, strength, violence, and bodily memory.
Tanya Lukin Linklater's performances in museums, videos and installations have been exhibited in Canada, the United States and abroad. In 2017, as a member of Wood Land School, she participated in Under the Mango Tree - Sites of Learning, a gathering for documenta14 in Athens and Kassel. In 2018 she was the inaugural recipient of the Wanda Koop Research Fund administered by Canadian Art. Tanya originates from the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in southwestern Alaska and is based in northern Ontario.
Artist talk with Camille Rojas: Thursday October 4, 7pm
Toronto-based artist Camille Rojas will speak about her artistic practice rooted in dance and film, while responding to the current exhibition.
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