Tanya Tagaq at TBA
Tanya Tagaq, an Inuit throat singer, performed at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s (PICA) Time Based Art (TBA) festival two months ago, in mid-September, with the heat of summer still lingering in the air outside Lincoln Hall. I went because I’m interested in contemporary native artists whose work often contends with appropriation, misrepresentation and the false perception that contemporary native people are not art and culture makers. I was also drawn to this p
