Tanya Lukin Linklater

In partnership with Catriona Jeffries, CAG is pleased to host a launch for Tanya Lukin Linklater’s publication *My mind is with the weather*. Lukin Linklater will be joined in conversation by poet and editor Michael Nardone. 

Published on the occasion of her recent three-part exhibition of the same name, My mind is with the weather documents a series of significant recent works produced by Lukin Linklater and her collaborators, highlighting her long-term research into relational gestures such as conversation, movement, listening, and touch.

Featuring contributions from Eungie Joo, Layli Long Soldier, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Beth Piatote, the publication is edited by Frances Loeffler and co-published by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Oakville Galleries; and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin. 

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact learning@cagvancouver.org to book or for more information.

### Biographies
Tanya Lukin Linklater (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, b. 1976, Kodiak Island, USA) undertakes embodied inquiry in rehearsal, performance, video, installation, and writing. 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)*, *inner blades of grass (cured)*, *inner blades of grass (bruised by weather)*, including works from the last ten years and new commissions, and curated by Kelly Kivland, will be presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2024. Tanya lives and works in Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki.
 
Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montréal. Recent works include *Aural Poetics*, *In Vivid Density*, and, with Dana Michel, *Yellow Towel: A Score*. In 2025, Talonbooks will publish his book of dialogues on poetics, *Convivialities*. 











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Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather

Publication Launch

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Join us for a talk in the gallery between Tanya Lukin Linklater and Jordan Wilson on the occasion of Lukin Linklater's exhibition *My mind is with the weather*.

### Accessibility 
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is encouraged. Secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-conversation-tanya-lukin-linklater-and-jordan-wilson-tickets-474378778697).

### Biographies
Tanya Lukin Linkater (Alutiiq, b. 1976, Kodiak Island, USA) works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her recent exhibitions include the Aichi Trienniale; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and La Biennale de Montréal. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, holding a Master's of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1998). *Slow Scrape*, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020). She lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg territory in North Bay, Ontario.

Jordan Wilson is an emerging curator and writer, and is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at New York University. He is a member of the Musqueam First Nation. Prior to starting graduate studies, Wilson was a Curatorial Intern at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (2017-2018). He holds an MA in Anthropology and a BA in First Nations Studies (now First Nations and Indigenous Studies), both obtained at the University of British Columbia. Wilson was a co-curator of the exhibits *c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city* (2015) and *In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art* (2017) at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Along with Karen Duffek and Bill McLennan, Jordan co-edited the book *Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art* (2021). He was recently the inaugural Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellow at Independent Curators International (ICI).

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Tanya Lukin Linklater & Jordan Wilson

In Conversation

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From December 5 to 7, Tanya Lukin Linklater invites visitors to witness a series of open rehearsals with dancer Ivanie Aubin-Malo. These rehearsals extend from Lukin Linklater’s work *Hair Prints* (2022), on view at CAG this fall.

### Accessibility
The studio is regrettably not wheelchair accessible. A full flight of stairs is required to access the studio. Seating will be available for attendees; these chairs do not have arms.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is required; access to the studio will be provided at fixed times each day. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-rehearsals-with-tanya-lukin-linklater-tickets-474259170947).

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with Tanya Lukin Linklater

Open Rehearsals

Please join us to celebrate CAG's fall 2022 exhibitions, *Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My* and *Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather*. 

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

No advance registration required for this event.

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Fall 2022

Opening Reception

The practice of Tanya Lukin Linklater is at once an exploration and articulation of insistence. Across works encompassing performance, video, installation, and writing, Lukin Linklater traces the expansive ways Indigenous knowledges, histories and structures have been embodied and sustained amidst colonialisms’ systemic dispossessions. Centering her focus in and through the body, her works map continuance as an iterative practice, often most powerfully enacted through relational gestures such as conversation, movement, listening and touch.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Lukin Linklater presents *An amplification through many minds* (2019), a work that extends from her close engagement with a collection of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Unagan belongings originating from her homelands in southern Alaska and the Aleutian Chain, now held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. This video follows Lukin Linklater and a trio of dancers through the process of developing a choreographic score for these displaced belongings that is subsequently performed in the museum’s storage vaults. A gesture towards both restoration and repatriation, this piece is accompanied by a series of new works on paper that index the artist’s presence through land and movement alike.

From November 9 to 11, Lukin Linklater will hold open rehearsals for a choreography she is developing in relation to these new works. Further details can be found [here](https://cagvancouver.org/event/open-rehearsals-with-tanya-lukin-linklater).

*Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather* is co-organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

### Biography
Tanya Lukin Linkater (Alutiiq, b. 1976, Kodiak Island, USA) works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her recent exhibitions include the Aichi Trienniale; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and La Biennale de Montréal. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, holding a Master's of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1998). *Slow Scrape*, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020). She lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg territory in North Bay, Ontario.

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A video still of a dancer in mid-air, performing in a storage space with yellow cabinets lining the walls. She is wearing a blue shirt and purple tights.

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Entryway into a gallery with a video projection by Tanya Lukin Linklater visible on an interior wall. Video depicts three dancers in mid-movement in a room with white walls and wood floor.

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Video by Tanya Lukin Linklater projected on a wall in a dark room. Video depicts a woman opening a drawer inside an open storage locker surrounded by two rows of closed storage lockers.

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Video by Tanya Lukin Linklater projected on a wall in a dark room. Video depicts Lukin Linklater wearing white gloves in front of storage lockers, speaking at a table with archival boxes and objects.

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Video by Tanya Lukin Linklater projected on a wall in a dark room. Video depicts two dancers in mid-movement in a room with white walls and wood floor.

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Five hairprints by Tanya Lukin Linklater arranged in a row on a white wall. Prints are in wood frames and feature grey, lavender-pink, and red marks in swirls and dots on white backgrounds.

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My mind is with the weather

The practice of Tanya Lukin Linklater is at once an exploration and articulation of insistence. Working across performance, video, installation, and writing, Lukin Linklater traces the expansive ways Indigenous knowledges, histories and structures have been embodied and sustained amid colonialisms' systemic dispossessions. Published on the occasion of her three-part exhibition *My mind is with the weather*, this catalogue documents a series of significant recent works produced by Lukin Linklater and her collaborators, highlighting her long-term research into relational gestures such as conversation, movement, listening, and touch.

Featuring contributions from Eungie Joo, Layli Long Soldier, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Beth Piatote. Edited by Frances Loeffler. 

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