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Artist Residency

Three dancers face away from the camera and gesture with their arms in a gallery. Two stand at left and right, while the third is seated left of center.

Experience the process of making dances with Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Tanya Lukin Linklater and invited dance artists in the galleries.

During the closing week of the exhibition Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather), visitors to the galleries can experience a series of improvisational open rehearsals with dance artists. Audiences are invited to view the unfolding activities of embodiment, gesture, and sensation.

Lukin Linklater facilitates a choreographic process in these open rehearsals through experimentation and structured improvisation, as well as prompts from objects in the exhibition; places (specific locations, architectures, and Indigenous territories/homelands); and writings. Interacting with Structure of Sustenance Three—a triangular sculpture that resembles a caguyaq, or Sugpiaq bentwood hunting hat—the dance artists respond to ideas expressed in prompts and conversations on colonialism(s), endurance, sensation, and the uneven lived experiences of bodies.

From 2022 to 2024, Lukin Linklater has stayed with this slow, unfolding approach, refusing to culminate these rehearsals in finished performances. In this way, she centers both the labor—intellectual, affective, and physical—and relational aspects of making dances.

Please note: Patrons are free to come and go but are asked to keep a quiet presence in the galleries as they observe.
 

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Tanya Lukin Linklater, Scrape soak steam pour crack sew bend brace., open rehearsal with dance artists as part of the exhibition Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather) at the Wexner Center for the Arts, 2024. 

Artists

  • Dance artists: Sam Aros-Mitchell, Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Talia Dixon, and lisa nevada
  • Choreographer: Tanya Lukin Linklater
  • Outside eye/facilitator: Rosy Simas
  • Costume, styling, and studio assistant: Mina Linklater

Learn more about the artists.

Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather) is organized by Kelly Kivland, former head of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts and director and lead curator at Michigan Central, with support from Curatorial Assistant Jonathan Gonzalez. 

THIS PRESENTATION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Teiger Foundation
Canada Council for the Arts

EXHIBITIONS 2024–25 SEASON MADE POSSIBLE BY  
Bill and Sheila Lambert  
Crane Family Foundation  

FREE GALLERIES MADE POSSIBLE BY  
PNC Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY  
Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family 

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc


Nationwide Foundation

Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme

The Columbus Foundation 
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners  
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection  
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang

Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle


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