Tanya Lukin Linklater: “Tendon thread”

Compelled by lineages of Sugpiaq cultural work and their continuance despite imperial and colonial disruptions of lifeways, Tanya Lukin Linklater will discuss her ongoing practice of visiting the ancestral belongings of her people in museum collections. The talk will bring into focus her speculative responses to photographic documentation of Sugpiaq belongings in the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg, Russia. Coupled with her meditations on estuaries, grasses, and customary practices of the Kodiak archipelago, these threads organize her performance commission for the Center for Human Rights and the Arts and Fisher Center LAB at Bard, premiering in Fall 2026. 

This talk is produced in collaboration with Fen Live Lab (فل/F’LL), an incubator for innovations in live art and performance practices. It is moderated by Joanna Settle. 
 

Making dances in museums, videos, sculptures, and works on paper, Tanya Lukin Linklater thinks with beingness, embodiment, orality, scores, sensation, and weather. Her recent exhibitions and performances include Dia Chelsea, New York, Camden Art Centre, London, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio. She is Sugpiaq from the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska.