On its most straightforward level, it tells the story of an unnamed adolescent girl growing up in Nunavut in the 1970s, although this time frame is communicated only through subtle clues. To unpack Split Tooth’s labyrinthine structure in a single review is a challenge. Formally identified as fiction, it is in fact a thick braid of lived experience, philosophy, poetry, and traditional knowledge. It’s no surprise, then, that Split Tooth, Tagaq’s literary debut, defies categorization. An Inuk artist from Iqaluktuutiaq, Tagaq’s performances are innovative and face-meltingly intense, and she has collaborated with a wide array of music’s weird geniuses from Björk to the Kronos Quartet. As a vocalist and composer, Tanya Tagaq cares little for conventional rules of engagement.
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