taisha paggett: i believe in echoes
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Audain Gallery 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1H4
taisha paggett, "i believe in echoes," 2018
performance documentation on June 17, 2018 as part of Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Justin Sullivan.
taisha paggett is a dance artist who cultivates independent and collaborative performance works for the stage, gallery and outdoors. Her research and pedagogical engagement focuses on the relationship between geography and being, in order to navigate 21st-century Black American life. The artistic results explore how gesture and breath may help make life within uninhabitable conditions inhabitable.
i believe in echoes considers somatic experience within the "meadow," a phenomenological and speculative geography that supports physical and psychic embodiment in the out-of-doors. The "meadow" evokes the dance studio, the green room, the white cube, and the theatre. It is an ecosystem of consciousness in which fugitive bodies query the historical delineation of inside-outside, and the social hierarchies that determine access and restriction.
Drawing on broader conversations on the Black Outdoors, such as Saidiya Hartman's consideration of the totality of racial-sexual-ecological enclosure, Fred Moten's potentiality of the out-of-outside, and Katherine McKittrick's visualization of Black women's geographies, paggett continues her work on creating breathing room for the echoes of multiple histories to be felt and heard.
paggett is based in Los Angeles and her work has been presented at LACE, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. She is faculty in University of California Riverside's Department of Dance, and artistic director of WXPT dance company and the School for the Movement of the Technicolor People.
paggett is the School for the Contemporary Arts' 2018 Audain Visual Artist in Residence, which is co-presented by SFU Galleries. Her project is supported by Western Front and UBC Okanagan's Department of Creative Studies 2018 Summer Indigenous Art Intensive.
Curated by Amy Kazymerchyk.
* Due to lobby renovations, the gallery is only accessible by the W. Hastings Street doors.
Events
Workshop: "the meadow" research studioTuesdays, Thursdays September 25 - October 11, 6:30 - 8:30PMSFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., VancouverClick here for more information
Talk: taisha paggett (SCA Visual Art - 611 Talks)Thursday, September 20, 1 - 2PM611 Alexander St. Studios, Vancouver
Talk: taisha paggett (SCA Dance, Theatre and Performance)Friday, September 21, 12:30 - 2PMRoom 4525, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Opening Reception and PerformanceWednesday, October 10, 7 - 9PMAudain Gallery
Talk: Scrivener's MonthlyFriday, October 12, 7PMWestern Front, 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver