Panel Discussion: Release: Towards an unburdening

This conversation will delve into the powerful themes and artists showcased in Labour, an exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto that includes text, film, and installation works. TBA 2024 Program artist Tanya Lukin Linklater will join panelists La Tanya S. Autry and Chantal Gibson. Together, they will explore critical questions such as: What motivates our inclusion in institutional spaces? Who holds the right to tell our stories? How can we express justified rage against microaggressions and discrimination? And how can rest be wielded as a form of resistance?

Performances and Incantations

The panel will open with a sonic introduction by Michael Shand, Sekou Lumumba and Richard Grossman and will conclude with a poetic outro by poetic writer, community organizer and cultural curator Farhia Tato.

This event is free and all are welcome. Registration is recommended.

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This event is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and is presented in partnership with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

Innis Town Hall, Innis College

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September 29

3:00pm – 5:30pm

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This program is free, but registration is recommended.

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Artist Bio

Tanya Lukin Linklater

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s (b. 1979, Alaska; she/her) practice and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance, and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry and site-specific rehearsals. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Inner blades of grass (soft), inner blades of grass (cured), inner blades of grass (bruised by weather), curated by Kelly Kivland, was presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2024. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Her Sugpiaq homelands are the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki.

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