Community Event - Burlington/Oakville - New Exhibit at Oakville Galleries
Tanya Lukin Linklater
My mind is with the weather
5 June – 28 August 2022
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
Tanya Lukin Linklater works across a range of media, including choreographed dance performances, video, sculptural installation and text. Her research-based practice considers the troubled colonial histories of Turtle Island (North America) and the structural violences Indigenous communities continue to withstand.
In My mind is with the weather, new and recent works consider how these violencesare registered and processed in the body and highlight moments of resistance. These moments come from working collaboratively with others as an anti-colonial strategy, addressing the complexities of sharing Indigenous knowledge in institutional setting— such as the museum — and a focus on the critical importance of certain practices of everyday life, such as music, dance, language, and domestic rituals.
Lukin Linklater has lived and worked in Nbisiing Anishinabek territory in northern Ontario for more than a decade.
My mind is with the weather is presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art,a free city-wide art event taking place across the city and GTA from 26 March – 5 June, 2022. This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. An exhibition catalogue with new writing is due to be published in the Spring of 2023.
