Tanya Lukin Linklater – Le Grand Balcon, OCTOBER 20, 2016–JANUARY 1, 2017
Tanya Lukin Linklater Le Grand Balcon October 20, 2016–January 1, 2017
La Biennale de Montréal, MACM, Canada
Le Grand Balcon [The Grand Balcony], the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, explores an unusual question: is hedonism possible today? The project posits the urgency of forming a materialistic, sensualistic approach to the world that mobilizes the capacities of both brain and body to their fullest. It sets out the challenge of developing an ethical hedonism and a joyous utilitarianism.
The work of Tanya Lukin Linklater consists of a performative practice that is expressed through live interventions, installations, photographs, videos and texts. Over the years, Lukin Linklater has developed a writing practice that she incorporates into some of her visual works to establish a dialogue with the gestural and spatial scores interpreted by the performers. These different narrative forms are brought together in order to highlight the body-object relationship, which is fundamental in the artist’s practice. She questions the dominant, objectifying gaze cast at Indigenous women’s bodies and culture, and examines the ethical dimension of this gaze from the perspective of an Indigenous feminist approach.
