Tanya Lukin Linklater: Storm song
Commissioned for Carried by rivers, held by lands, Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Storm song is a site-responsive installation of sound, textiles, and places of rest. Located in the Gallery Lounge on Level 3 of Remai Modern, overlooking kisiskâciwani-sîpiy—the South Saskatchewan River—the work extends Lukin Linklater’s ongoing consideration of weather, temporality, and embodied knowledges.
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
August 28, 2026 – December 3, 2026
Where
Level 3 Galleria
At the centre of the installation is a narrative audio work presented at the same time each day. Emerging from ongoing conversations and relationships with Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway, and Yvonne Tiger, the work centers Indigenous women’s knowledge and lived experiences of weather, land, and memory across the Great Plains. At other times, an ambient audio composition inhabits the space, drawing on environmental sound and the temporal rhythms of the prairie landscape. It invites visitors into sustained attention to the river, the land, and the changing conditions that shape them.
Textile works, wooden benches, and places of rest form a second constellation within the installation. Drawing on materials and forms that recur throughout Lukin Linklater’s practice—including all-weather canvas, wool blankets, kohkom scarves, and forms drawn from the prairie ecosystem—these works extend the artist’s ongoing engagement with what she calls felt structures. Lukin Linklater describes these as “atmospheres that hold us.”
About the artist
Tanya Lukin Linklater’s artistic practice spans video, works on paper, installation, and dance in museums. Sensation, embodied inquiry, scores, rehearsal, and being in relation (to ancestral belongings, Indigenous communities, and weather) structure her work. She has shown in the Aichi Triennale, Japan; Camden Art Centre, London; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; SITE SANTA FE; Toronto Biennial of Art, and elsewhere. Her solo exhibition, Crested, was presented by Portikus (Frankfurt) in 2026. Her recent publications include a collection of poetry and event scores, Slow Scrape (Talonbooks, 2022), and contributions to art catalogues, including Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Hirmer, 2024) and Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance (Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Forge Project; MacKenzie Art Gallery; SITE SANTA FE; Dancing Foxes Press, 2025). Her Sugpiaq homelands are in the Kodiak archipelago of Alaska.
Carried by rivers, held by lands is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Embassy of Sweden.
Curatorial team
Carried by rivers, held by lands is curated by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, Co-Executive Director and CEO, and Tarah Hogue, Adjunct Curator (Indigenous Art), Remai Modern, Saskatoon; and Maria Lind, Director, Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna.