Field Guide

Remai Modern

Saskatoon
October 2017– January 2018 

"Works from the permanent collection are placed in dialogue with contemporary projects, commissioned pieces and immersive installations.

Several major projects anchor the exhibition, and propose new social, personal and political engagements with the museum and its audiences. Determined by the river, a collaborative installation and discursive event by Tanya Lukin Linklater and Duane Linklater, assembles a physical and conceptual vessel to carry or hold Indigenous ideas, histories, objects and forms." 

For more information, including details about the other artists in the opening exhibition, please see:

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/153399/field-guide/

For a description of Determined by the river, including our statement, please see:

https://remaimodern.org/program/exhibitions/exhibition/determined-by-the-river-tanya-lukin-linklater-duane-linklater

SEPT 22-SPRING 2018

INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE brings together 29 emerging-to-established Indigenous artists who are pushing boundaries with their work. The collection considers political insurgency and cultural resurgence to radically shift our understanding of Canada, now and in the future. Working in a variety of media, the artists focus on Indigenous intergenerational cultural knowledge within land based practices, gender, traditional aesthetics, language revitalization, interconnected kinships, identity, and material culture. INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE is the WAG's largest-ever exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art and includes 12 new commissions from artists across Canadian territories and nations. Feel the pulse of today through tufting, tattooing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, beading, media, and performance.

Featuring work by:
Barry Ace • KC Adams • Joi T. Arcand • Dee Barsy • Scott Benesiinaabandan • Jordan Bennett • Heather Campbell • Bruno Canadien • Hannah Claus • Dana Claxton • Dayna Danger • Earthline Tattoo Collective • Bracken Hanuse Corlett • Tsema Igharas • Ursula Johnson • Casey Koyczan • Kenneth Lavallee • Duane Linklater • Tanya Lukin Linklater • Amy Malbeuf • Kent Monkman • Caroline Monnet • Tiffany Shaw-Collinge • Frank Shebageget • Amanda Strong • Joseph Tisiga • Couzyn van Heuvelen • Isabella Weetaluktuk • Linus Woods

Curated by Jaimie Isaac and Julie Nagam

Please see:

http://wag.ca/art/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/display,exhibition/206/insurgence-resurgence

Wood Land School Goes to Documenta: A Talk on Indigenous Institutional Critique, Part 2

A Feature in Canadian Art with John Hampton and Wood Land School, August 31, 2017

Please see the link below for our conversation on slowness, care, refusal, orality and Indigenous knowledge production and radical education.

http://canadianart.ca/features/wood-land-school-documenta/

Our Side: Elisa Harkins, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Marianne Nicolson, and Tanis S'eiltin

September 12, 2017 - February 24, 2018

Curated by Wendy Red Star

Missoula Art Museum

In her curatorial statement, Red Star writes,

“To be Bíiluuke—‘Our Side’—implies that one has the same ancestry, language, spiritual beliefs, territory, and social structure. From this term, which my ancestors used to define themselves as a separate unique people, this exhibition, Our Side, invites four contemporary artists: Elisa Harkins, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Marianne Nicolson, and Tanis S’eiltin to creatively investigate identity, language, and territory, from their individual perspectives. Sharing a common understanding of the significance of origin stories as a temporal and historical space where community is shaped, each artist works from a broad range of media including performance, sculpture, painting, sound, social engagement, and video, and to maintain common ties around indigenous narratives, engagement with community, feminism, activism, and the importance of specificity.”

http://www.missoulaartmuseum.org/index.php/ID/533de0d49fe0bbbe31a42f5e816aad38/fuseaction/exhibitions.detail.htm

Calculating Upon the Unforeseen curated by Clara Halpern for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2017

September 30, 2017 

7:00 pm - 7:00 am the following day

The treaty is in the body, 2017

The artist writes “I am most often engaged with Indigenous ideas and I am interested in the ways in which ideas are mobile. Even in the face of structures that attempt to contain, they can be activated and become uncontainable.”

The body is a way to know—a way to transmit knowledge. In her practice, Lukin Linklater works with dancers to transmit ideas, which, though invisible, our bodies respond to.

This project arose out of the artist’s research into treaty, catalyzed by Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike in Ottawa, a 44-day political action in 2012 and 2013. The artist recalls signs held at rallies during Idle No More: "We are all treaty people" and "Moosehide tanners against fascism". This video takes up Indigenous understandings of treaty relationships which are at the foundation of Canada. It calls for non-Indigenous audiences to consider their implication within treaty. The site of this project, the Toronto Labyrinth, offers a space for contemplating this embodied past, present and future.

Film Credits:
Performers - Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Sassa Linklater, Keisha Stone
Camera/Sound - Neven Lochhead

In Dialogue

September 6 – October 7, 2017

Organized by John G. Hampton

Co-presented by the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba and Carleton University Art Gallery

University of Toronto Art Centre

In Dialogue is an exhibition structured as a conversation. It invites viewers into intimate discussions that work through new ways of understanding and being Indigenous in contemporary contexts. Moving from spaces of contemplation and reception to moments of excitement and animation, the artists blur borders drawn with invented notions of authenticity and guide us through negotiations between the specificity of personhood and its abstraction into larger groups of belonging. This gathering of work embraces the wildly individualistic tumble of connections and contradictions that constitute contemporary Indigenous identities, opening a dialogue between artists, audiences, and the interconnected mesh-works woven between all our relations.

Works by:

Raven Davis, Raymond Boisjoly, David Garneau, Carola Grahn, Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan), Nicole Kelly Westman, Duane Linklater, Tanya Lukin-Linklater, Amy Malbeuf, Nadia Myre, Peter Morin, Krista Belle Stewart

Opening the Dialogue

Saturday, September 16, 2017, 4:30-6pm
Panel discussion featuring Raven Davis, John G. Hampton, Duane Linklater, Tanya Lukin Linklater and Peter Morin
University College, Room 140

http://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/in-dialogue/

TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER: SUN FORCE

August 9 - 18, 2017

Signy Eaton Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario

“Dancers perform specialized labour and over many years they obtain a deep understanding of the body. I am compelled by the body as a way to know – as a way to transmit knowledge.”

— Tanya Lukin Linklater

As artist in residence at Art Gallery of Ontario, I was invited to respond to Rita Letendre's Fire & Light. After a series of rehearsals in the gallery, a performance with dancers, Ceinwen Gobert and Danah Rosales, happened on August 18 at 7 pm within Rita Letendre's Fire & Light. 

I also was in conversation with Wanda Nanibush, who co-curated the exhibition on Sunday, August 13 regarding my process. 

https://ago.ca/events/tanya-lukin-linklater-sun-force

THAT I AM READING BACKWARDS AND INTO FOR A PURPOSE, TO GO ON:

The publication for this exhibition, curated by Magdalyn Asimakas, Jared Quinton and Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, is downloadable and available at the Whitney ISP website. I have a series of event scores that are included in the publication. 

http://whitney.org/Research/ISP/CuratorialProgram/2017Exhibition