Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts continues its tour and is currently on view at
August 18 – October 30, 2022
Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson
Tour Organized by Independent Curators International (ICI)
with performances and other events happening during the exhibition.
https://kcai.edu/kcai-gallery/
LEAD CURATOR: GERALD MCMASTER
CO-CURATOR: NINA VINCENT
INSTITUTIONAL CURATOR: NOOR ALÉ, ASSOCIATE CURATOR
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity explores the ways in which Indigenous contemporary artists and collaborators take on issues of climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and contact zones in and about the Arctic and the Amazon during a time of crisis. The featured artists have their origins or are connected to these places, and their works embody a politics of resistance, resurgence, and ways of knowing and being in relation to the lands that are the source of their knowledge and creativity.
A constellation of new and past works by artists Pia Arke (Greenland/Denmark), Sonya Kelliher-Combs (United States), Tanya Lukin Linklater (United States/Canada), Couzyn van Heuvelen (Canada), Máret Ánne Sara (Norway), Uýra (Indigenous in diaspora), Olinda Reshijabe Silvano (Peru), Morzaniel Iramari (Brazil), Leandro Lima & Gisela Motta (Brazil), Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Venezuela), and Outi Pieski (Finland) will be featured in Arctic/Amazon. Encompassing a range of media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, this exhibition seeks to shed light on current geopolitical and environmental sustainability issues that inform artistic practices in these two vastly different, yet interconnected, regions.
The main themes in this group exhibition are drawn from the Arctic/Amazon symposium that was co-hosted by the Ontario College of Art & Design University and The Power Plant in September 2019. The purpose of the symposium was to gather established and emerging Indigenous scholars, curators, and artists primarily from North American regions of the Arctic and Amazonian zones to meet, exchange ideas, share works, and develop collaborative strategies that would bring together traditional knowledges of Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
Friday, September 2, 2022 - Sunday, February 26, 2023
National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON
Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery, this exhibition celebrates the expressive energy of the human body. From seventeenth century prints to contemporary performance, paintings, photographs and videos, the show demonstrates how the body endures as a subject for artists wishing to explore issues of social concern, or express the many possibilities of human contact and interaction.
I will be participating in this exhibition with a new work, A gentle reassembly, 2022.
https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/movement-expressive-bodies-in-art
Ontario Culture Days are excited to welcome its third lineup of residents in the 2022 Creatives in Residence program. Since launching the residency in 2020, the program has become a key component of the Ontario Culture Days Festival showcasing the vibrancy of the Ontario arts and culture community.
Over the next 5-months, the residents will work in communities across Ontario to explore themes of access (or lack thereof) to resources such as food, community space, local history and technology, all of which have been heightened issues since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The creatives will focus on community collaboration with their projects culminating in community-based activities and exhibits presented during the 2022 fall festival.
Dave Dyment
Sarah Gartshore and Adam Francis Proulx
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Isorine Marc
Tonya Sutherland
Uju Umenyi
Angela Walcott
https://onculturedays.ca/2022-creatives-in-residence/
Join Wapatah Centre for a very special Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Contact Zones as part of the Arctic / Amazon project and in support of the upcoming publication – Arctic/Amazon Networks of Global Indigeneity. Co-authors Dr. Gerald McMaster and Dr. Nina Vincent will be joined in conversation by contributing author Tanya Lukin Linklater to discuss the Reclamation of Traditional Knowledge and the notion of the Museum as a Contact Zone. The workshop will also touch on the Knowledge that exists in cultural belongings and the extensive Land Based Artwork of Lukin Linklater with her community in the Alutiiq villages of the Kodiak Island archipelago of southwestern Alaska.
Organized in conjunction with My mind is with weather, my solo exhibition at Oakville Galleries Centennial Square opening June 5, 2022.
Join us for the next event in our series, In Conversation, with Layli Long Soldier and Tanya Lukin Linklater! Long-time supporters of each other's practices, they will come together to discuss the themes and issues that are raised by their work, including language, relations, origin, repatriation, and resistance.
Pre-registration on Eventbrite required. Register at the link below. This event will take place online over Zoom.
Tanya Lukin Linklater's performances, works for camera, installations, and writings centre histories of Indigenous peoples' lives, lands, and structures of sustenance. Her performances in relation to objects in exhibition, scores, and cultural belongings generate what she has come to call felt structures. Her work has been shown at ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University, SFMOMA, Remai Modern, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery and elsewhere. She will participate in Soft Water Hard Stone, the New Museum Triennial 2021. Her first book of poetry, Slow Scrape, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism in 2020. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.
Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/programs/details/169/Tanya-Lukin-Linklater
TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER My mind is with the weather
5 June – 28 August 2022
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
Tanya Lukin Linklater works across a range of media, including choreographed dance performances, video, sculptural installation and text. Her research-based practice considers the troubled colonial histories of Turtle Island (North America) and the structural violences Indigenous communities continue to withstand. In this exhibition, new and recent works consider how these violences are registered and processed in the body and highlight moments of resistance. These moments come from working collaboratively with others as an anticolonial strategy, addressing the complexities of sharing Indigenous knowledge in institutional settings—such as the museum—and a focus on the critical importance of certain practices of everyday life, such as music, dance, language, and domestic rituals. Lukin Linklater's Alutiiq homelands are in the Kodiak archipelago of Alaska. She has lived and worked in Nbisiing Anishinabek territory in northern Ontario for more than a decade.
This event organized by Toronto Biennial of Art has been postponed to late spring 2023.
The sky held me (rainfall on hands hair lips) is a series of springtime site-specific performance investigations taking place at High Park over the course of five days. Building upon the interdisciplinary practice of artist Tanya Lukin Linklater and her work in the Biennial, Held in the air I never fell (spring lightning sweetgrass song), these process-based open rehearsals bring Lukin Linklater together with invited dancers Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Ceinwen Gobert, and Emily Law, and composer/musician Laura Ortman to generate resonant embodied inquiries. Bordered to the west by Grenadier Pond and covered in a system of wetlands, High Park is a place of synergy between land and water. During these sustained sessions, Lukin Linklater leads a collective performance in response to scores she has penned, as well as to the surroundings of High Park during the spring—a particularly generative season that invites us to take cues from the sky above us.
This program will take place May 18-22, 2022 from 10am–4pm daily.
https://torontobiennial.org/programs/the-sky-held-me-rainfall-on-hands-hair-lips/