Artist talk: Tanya Lukin Linklater
Whether we weather, whether we become weathered
February 27
Heather Edwards Theatre | 6-7:30 PM
In this talk, Tanya Lukin Linklater will address weather and embodiment. She is moved by and with weather in her artistic and writing practices.
This talk is presented by the Department of Art and Art History and International Indigenous Studies at the University of Calgary, in partnership with Contemporary Calgary.
About the Artist
Tanya Lukin Linklater's artistic practice spans video, sculpture, and dance in museums. Sensation, embodied inquiry, scores, rehearsal, and being in relation (to ancestral belongings, communities, and weather) structure her work. Through citation of Indigenous peoples' lived experience and cultural work, she honours practices and lineages that exceed dominant ideas of who we are. Her work reckons with histories that affect Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences, (home)lands, and ideas. She continues to write in relation to what she has come to call felt structures. Her work has been internationally exhibited at venues including the National Gallery of Canada, the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum Triennial, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Lukin Linklater teaches as a faculty mentor in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (Santa Fe) low-residency MFA in Studio Arts and was invited faculty at The Banff Centre’s spring visual arts residency program in 2023. Her book Slow Scrape (2nd edition, Talonbooks, Vancouver 2022), draws on documentary poetics, concrete-based installations, event scores, and can be read alongside her practice of choreography. Her Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska. She is a tribally enrolled member of the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in the Kodiak archipelago.
