MFA Music: Tanya Tagaq presents 'Nanook of the North'

When:
Saturday, Mar 11, 2017 7:30p -
9:30p

Where:
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
465 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
$25

Categories:
Date Idea, Film, Music

Event website:
http://www.mfa.org/programs/music/tanya-tagaq-presents-nanook-of-the-north

Tanya Tagaq, the Arctic-born artist, is an improvisational performer, avant-garde composer and experimental recording artist. In this presentation of her "Nanook of the North" show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tagaq reclaims the controversial 1922 silent film of the same title. The film is considered the world’s first major work of non-fiction filmmaking, even though the piece is rife with contradictions and incorrect assumptions about Inuit life that persist to this day. This performance will challenge static ideas of genre and culture, and contend with themes of environmentalism, human rights and post-colonial issues.


Tanya Tagaq in concert with "Nanook of the North" was commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered to critical acclaim in 2012 as part of TIFF First Nations. Since then, she has performed unique iterations of the "Nanook of the North" show to audiences at Lincoln Centre, at Mondavi Centre (San Francisco), Luminato (Toronto), PUSH International Film Festival (Vancouver) and Helsinki Festival.


Image courtesy of Bernstein Artists.

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