On Felt Structures: Weather, Embodiment, and Materiality.

The thesis project is comprised of research creation works commissioned by curators in Canada and the U.S.: An amplification through many minds (2019) and Kodiak Alutiiq belongings for SFMOMA’s Soft Power; We wear one another (2019) arising from a MacKenzie Delta Inuvaluit gut parka installed for So...

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Main Author: Lukin-Linklater, Tanya M.
Other Authors: Cultural Studies, Robinson, Dylan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2023
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spelling ftqueensuniv:oai:qspace.library.queensu.ca:1974/32040 2023-11-12T04:00:37+01:00 On Felt Structures: Weather, Embodiment, and Materiality. Lukin-Linklater, Tanya M. Cultural Studies Robinson, Dylan 2023-10-20T19:41:52Z application/pdf https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/32040 eng eng Canadian theses https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/32040 Queen's University's Thesis/Dissertation Non-Exclusive License for Deposit to QSpace and Library and Archives Canada ProQuest PhD and Master's Theses International Dissemination Agreement Intellectual Property Guidelines at Queen's University Copying and Preserving Your Thesis This publication is made available by the authority of the copyright owner solely for the purpose of private study and research and may not be copied or reproduced except as permitted by the copyright laws without written authority from the copyright owner. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ weather repatriation ancestral belongings performance Alutiiq Sugpiaq affect theory dance studies performance studies Alaska Native Studies Indigenous Studies cultural studies research creation contemporary art visual art dance Kodiak museum studies cultural belongings a politics of mourning thesis 2023 ftqueensuniv 2023-10-21T23:04:19Z The thesis project is comprised of research creation works commissioned by curators in Canada and the U.S.: An amplification through many minds (2019) and Kodiak Alutiiq belongings for SFMOMA’s Soft Power; We wear one another (2019) arising from a MacKenzie Delta Inuvaluit gut parka installed for Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts at Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario; and the sculpture, Indigenous geometries (2019), a work with Métis artist and architect Tiffany Shaw (complemented by performance) for … and other such stories, the Chicago Architecture Biennial. This creative work aligns with generations of Indigenous scholarship and action. These works are accompanied by writing that builds on the intellectual labor of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Yup’ik Elders, writers, and cultural workers proposing the analytic of felt structures. Bundling Sugpiaq concepts of lla (weather, atmosphere, universe) and anerneq una (breath, energetic body), felt structures are potentially reparative and liberatory. Key thinkers in relation to felt structures (weather and embodiment) include Katherine McKittrick’s discussion of the counter-conceptual, Dian Million’s felt theory, Kristen Simmons’s settler atmospheric(s), Candice Hopkin’s repatriation otherwise, and Megan Scribe and Sefanit Habtom’s call to Black and Indigenous peoples to breathe alongside one another. Practically, the method is short form: a performance, a text, a sculpture, a breath, a stitch, a garment, or a song. In the brevity of short form, opacity is deployed. Short forms (gesturing towards cultural practices) gather over time, building towards insistence. Writing in a non-extractive way, I refuse to mine the artworks for content (Dylan Robinson). Instead, I write near, alongside, or adjacent to the projects. The writing moves through Kodiak Sugpiaq histories, the weather of (historical) grief, memory, Indigenous concepts surrounding ancestral or cultural belongings, the weather-proof museum, the weather of the body, Indigenous time(s), a politics of ... Thesis alutiiq Kodiak Mackenzie Delta sugpiaq Alaska Queen's University, Ontario: QSpace Canada Mackenzie Delta ENVELOPE(-136.672,-136.672,68.833,68.833) Parka ENVELOPE(17.540,17.540,66.787,66.787)
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topic weather
repatriation
ancestral belongings
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Alutiiq
Sugpiaq
affect theory
dance studies
performance studies
Alaska Native Studies
Indigenous Studies
cultural studies
research creation
contemporary art
visual art
dance
Kodiak
museum studies
cultural belongings
a politics of mourning
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Sugpiaq
affect theory
dance studies
performance studies
Alaska Native Studies
Indigenous Studies
cultural studies
research creation
contemporary art
visual art
dance
Kodiak
museum studies
cultural belongings
a politics of mourning
Lukin-Linklater, Tanya M.
On Felt Structures: Weather, Embodiment, and Materiality.
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repatriation
ancestral belongings
performance
Alutiiq
Sugpiaq
affect theory
dance studies
performance studies
Alaska Native Studies
Indigenous Studies
cultural studies
research creation
contemporary art
visual art
dance
Kodiak
museum studies
cultural belongings
a politics of mourning
description The thesis project is comprised of research creation works commissioned by curators in Canada and the U.S.: An amplification through many minds (2019) and Kodiak Alutiiq belongings for SFMOMA’s Soft Power; We wear one another (2019) arising from a MacKenzie Delta Inuvaluit gut parka installed for Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts at Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario; and the sculpture, Indigenous geometries (2019), a work with Métis artist and architect Tiffany Shaw (complemented by performance) for … and other such stories, the Chicago Architecture Biennial. This creative work aligns with generations of Indigenous scholarship and action. These works are accompanied by writing that builds on the intellectual labor of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Yup’ik Elders, writers, and cultural workers proposing the analytic of felt structures. Bundling Sugpiaq concepts of lla (weather, atmosphere, universe) and anerneq una (breath, energetic body), felt structures are potentially reparative and liberatory. Key thinkers in relation to felt structures (weather and embodiment) include Katherine McKittrick’s discussion of the counter-conceptual, Dian Million’s felt theory, Kristen Simmons’s settler atmospheric(s), Candice Hopkin’s repatriation otherwise, and Megan Scribe and Sefanit Habtom’s call to Black and Indigenous peoples to breathe alongside one another. Practically, the method is short form: a performance, a text, a sculpture, a breath, a stitch, a garment, or a song. In the brevity of short form, opacity is deployed. Short forms (gesturing towards cultural practices) gather over time, building towards insistence. Writing in a non-extractive way, I refuse to mine the artworks for content (Dylan Robinson). Instead, I write near, alongside, or adjacent to the projects. The writing moves through Kodiak Sugpiaq histories, the weather of (historical) grief, memory, Indigenous concepts surrounding ancestral or cultural belongings, the weather-proof museum, the weather of the body, Indigenous time(s), a politics of ...
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Copying and Preserving Your Thesis
This publication is made available by the authority of the copyright owner solely for the purpose of private study and research and may not be copied or reproduced except as permitted by the copyright laws without written authority from the copyright owner.
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