This event is part of the 2024/2025 MVS Proseminar Series and is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s practice and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance, and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry in rehearsal, performance, video, sculpture, and works on paper. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Inner blades of grass (soft) (cured) (bruised by weather), including works from the last ten years, commissions, and rehearsals with dance artists, was presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2024. Slow Scrape (2nd edition, Talonbooks, Vancouver 2022), draws on documentary poetics, concrete-based installations, and event scores. Her book can be read alongside her practice of choreography. 

She recently completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen's University, and she is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices in the Visual Arts Department at University of Victoria. Her Sugpiaq homelands are the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.

All images courtesy Tanya Lukin Linklater (Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver), Inner blades of grass (soft) / inner blades of grass (cured) / inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA, 2024. Photos: Luke Stettner. 1) “...a group of names forms a constellation—a structure of starlight that holds a poem together.”, 2024, watercolour on paper, 5 of each size: 8 x 10 in. (20 x 25 cm), 9 x 12 in. (23 x 31 cm), 12 x 16 in. (31 x 41 cm). 2) I am turning toward tides, winds, clouds, rainfall., 2024, pāua shells (abalone), beeswax, tarp, furniture blankets, installation dimensions variable. 3) Tanya Lukin Linklater with Tiffany Shaw, Indigenous geometries, 2019, cold rolled steel, laminate ash, paint, matte polyurethane, hardware, 84 x 107 x 107 in. (213 x 272 x 272 cm).