Scrape soak steam pour crack sew bend brace.

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.