DAY 3 - Sun Dec 5
11:00am
The Frisky Business of Creation
Event Type:
Virtual
Artists Taqralik Partridge, Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory, and Tarralik Duffy in conversation.
A conversation between three artists on the rise who are also friends. Their eclectic practices traverse the boundaries between tradition and contemporary, between past and future, and between humour and history.
About the Artists
Taqralik Partridge
Taqralik Partridge is an Ottawa-based writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and curator, originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. She is a former editor-at-large for the Inuit Art Quarterly, and her curatorial projects have been featured in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Guelph. Partridge's visual work has been presented in Sydney, Australia; and London, England; and at various galleries across Canada.... Read more
Laakkuluk
Laakkuluk is an award-winning filmmaker, performance artist, poet, actor, storyteller and writer based in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance that involves storytelling and centers three elements: fear, humour and sexuality. Laakkuluk describes uaajeerneq as both a political and cultural act and an idiosyncratic art form. Upon giving her the... Read more
Tarralik Duffy
Tarralik Duffy is a talented artist, jeweller and writer from Salliq (Coral Harbour), NU currently based in Saskatoon, SK. Working primarily in jewellery design under her label Ugly Fish, she uses materials salvaged from her home territory of Nunavut including beluga vertebrae, baleen, antler and seal skin. She also works with textiles to produce clothing, such... Read more