Artist in Residence: Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq, from Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut), is an internationally celebrated improvisational singer, avant-garde composer, visual artist, and bestselling author of Split Tooth. A member of the Order of Canada, and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, she has released six albums of music, including Animism (2014), which won the Polaris and JUNO Awards.

She will read from Split Tooth and a forthcoming follow up book. She will also be in residence as a musician at the Modlin Center, with her time overlapping with the Department of Music’s artist in residence, Peni Candra Rini.

Related Modlin Center of the Arts Event:

March 27, 7:30-9 p.m., Tanya Tagaq performance

This event is part of the 2024-25 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts, “The Nature of Representation,” hosted by the English Department, and it is aligned with the Humanities Center theme question, “How (and why) do we represent nature.” The UR Humanities Centeroffers public events as well as intensive research and community-building programs, guided by our mission to collate and amplify humanities study. Please subscribe to the Humanities Newsletter to keep up with Center activities, and follow URHumanities on Instagram.