Tanya Tagaq

Support: VÍZ

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Tanya Tagaq

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Hailing from Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktutiak), Nunavut, Tanya Tagaq carves the traditional practice of throat singing into a form of ancestral resonance wherein improvisation, experimentation, and the immediacy of visual and performance art form a new ritual of confrontation and survival. Across mediums, her work is a channel for urgency, healing while insisting upon transformation. Wild in its elasticity, her artistry shifts between the expansive whispers of the Arctic and flayed political outcry. She drapes her compositions in the language of nature, crackles of ice, the wind’s howl, the scream of a land under pressure, then shatters it with guttural ferocity, tremors of distortion, and moments of fragility. Each primal utterance is never uncoded; they strain under the weight of colonization, Indigenous erasure and ecological collapse. At the same time, Tagaq’s work pulses with radical tenderness. The spaces she evokes between speaking and silence demand presence. Her performances are corporeal, full body and lungs, the audience invited to tremble and partake.

For this performance, Tanya will be presenting material from her upcoming album Saputjiji, out March 6 on Six Shooter Records. Confronting the machinery of power with unflinching intensity, themes of resistance and survival unfolding upon darker and more cinematic terrains both elemental and industrial. Familiar symbols of authority are stripped of dominance and reabsorbed into the organic and the human. The performance will feature Canadian music stalwart, and Barnyard Records’ artistic director Jean Martin on drums, and interdisciplinary maverick Jeffrey Zeigler on cello.

Jean Martin has performed and recorded with artists such as David Murray, Evan Parker, William Parker, Veryan Weston, Phil Minton, Craig Tayborn to name a few. The body of work of cellist and multidisciplinary artist Jeffrey Zeigler spans across different genres, themes, and formats, from solo to opera to chamber and interdisciplinary collaborations. He was a member of the renowned Kronos Quartet from 2005-2013, and has worked with artists such as Laurie Anderson, Bryce Dessner of The National, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, and John Zorn.

UPDATE: Due to travel difficulties, we're bummed to say PΞB is unable to be in Berlin in time to perform tonight with Tanya. Taking over for them, Hungarian-Transylvanian artist VÍZ is born of horror and night, crawling from the shadowed forests swarming in Eastern European melancholy. Austere visual references frame a body of work rich in cinematic languages: the heaving swirl of noir, the dislocated timelines and blurred spaces of giallo, and folk horror's creeping dread unfold through electroacoustic detail and ritualistic vocal work. We’re stoked she can join us on such short notice!

Kindly supported by the Embassy of Canada.