Speaking in movements, Tanya Lukin Linklater situates her artistic practice within a lineage of Sugpiaq cultural workers undertaking customary art practices, repatriation, and knowledge transmission. She will discuss projects in relation to encounters with Sugpiaq belongings in museum collections since 2019 that are organized parallel to an analytic of felt structures. Lukin Linklater proposes that felt structures are simultaneously reparative, counter-conceptual, ephemeral, embodied, restorative, physiological and affective.

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s practice spans video, sculpture, and dance in museums. Sensation, embodied inquiry, scores, rehearsal, and being in relation to ancestral belongings and weather structure her work. She often cites Indigenous peoples’ lived experience and cultural work. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale; Gwangju Biennale; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Her solo exhibition, Inner blades of grass (soft) (cured) (bruised by weather), including works from the last ten years and new commissions, was presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, in 2024. As Grey Plumes, she will present new work with Duane Linklater at Camden Arts Centre, London, in 2025, organized by New Curators. She will also present a new performance at Dia Chelsea, New York. Her Sugpiaq homelands are in the Kodiak archipelago of Alaska.

Image: Tanya Lukin Linklater, Scrape soak steam pour crack sew bend brace., 2024. Rehearsals near Structure of Sustenance Three, commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. With dancers Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Sam Aros-Mitchell, Talia Dixon, and lisa nevada. Image courtesy of the Wexner Center for the Arts.