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For the third season of Forge Project Talks at CCS Bard, we have asked artists to present on an exhibition that has shaped their practices. In inviting this group of speakers—Jeffrey Gibson, G. Peter Jemison, and Tanya Lukin Linklater—we are interested in exhibition histories from their perspectives: which ones have had a lasting resonance, which ones altered the course of their careers, which ones changed the cannon? In inviting these reflections, this series of talks generates a history of exhibitions from the perspective of those intimately engaged with them, from the inside.
Tanya Lukin Linklater makes dances in museums, videos, sculptures, and works on paper. She thinks with weather, embodiment, beingness, and ancestral belongings in her practice. Compelled by scores, orality, poetics, embodied inquiry, Indigenous knowledge transmission, and ephemerality, her works are often iterative, happening over time.
Her recent and forthcoming exhibitions and performances include Camden Art Centre, London; Dia Art Foundation, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Portikus, Frankfurt; Rudolfinum, Prague; SITE SANTA FE; and Performance LAB, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Her artworks have entered the collections of Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Remai Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Americas Foundation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and elsewhere.
Her book, Slow Scrape (2nd edition, Talonbooks, Vancouver 2022), draws on documentary poetics, concrete-based installations, event scores, Sugt’stun and Ininímowin (Indigenous languages), and can be read alongside her choreographic practice. Her recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada, Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me, Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs, and Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance.
She invites dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Mya Dixon, Talia Dixon, Ceinwen Gobert, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Emily Law, and Brandi Norton, among others, to perform in her works. Tanya received the Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award in Visual Arts (2023-2024) and The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Visual Arts (2021). She studied at Stanford University (A.B. Honours), University of Alberta (M.Ed.), and completed her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in 2023.
Tanya is Sugpiaq from the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska.
This event is part of ongoing programming co-presented by Forge Project and CCS Bard and is organized by Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Executive Director & Chief Curator, Forge Project, and Fellow in Indigenous Art History and Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard.
Forge Project Talks
Forge Project Talks are part of a set of broader initiatives at Bard College that seek to place Native American and Indigenous Studies at the heart of curricular innovation, which includes programming organized by the Center for Indigenous Studies and the Rethinking Place initiative.
These programs are made possible by the Forge Endowed Fund for Indigenous Studies at Bard College, generously supported by the Gochman Family Foundation along with George Soros and the Open Society Foundations.
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