Tanya Lukin Linklater, Artist

As an invited artist, I gave a keynote at the UBC - Okanagan Summer Indigenous Art Intensive on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The Summer Indigenous Art Intensive is "month-long residency [that] gathers artists, curators, writers and scholars to engage in contemporary ideas and discourse—a place for new ideas rooted in Indigenous art-making" and "The 2019 Intensive broadly engages the theme Site/ation, connecting to place through Indigenous territoriality, being grounded in land, voice and language, reconnecting to/nurturing traditions, and beyond." My talk centred on my lived experiences as Alutiiq person considering the relationships between Alutiiq peoples, museums, and repatriation and my thinking and theorizing of performance as a gesture towards repatriation. I spoke specifically to the project, We wear one another, 2019 for Soundings curated by Dylan Robinson and Candice Hopkins at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre and the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.