taisha paggett & WXPT, breathingholdinglistening Performance, Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum
Before Made in L.A. 2018 closed in September, I had the honor to document taisha paggett and WXPT’s 4-hour artist performance, breathingholdinglistening practice, for the Hammer Museum (@hammer_museum).
Artist taisha paggett presented a series of solo and duet dances in dialogue with her Made in L.A. 2018 installation. Engaging ideas of race, history, and institutional representation, these durational actions consider the liberatory potential of black and brown bodies moving within the galleries and beyond. This event, while open to everyone, was intended to create space for POC and allies.
taisha paggett is a dance artist whose individual and collaborative interdisciplinary works re-articulate and collide specific Western choreographic practices with the politics of daily life. Her movement-based practice often examines fixed notions of queer black embodiment and survival. Her works include the dance company project WXPT (we are the paper, we are the trees) and the collaborative School for the Movement of the Technicolor People, both of which seek to radicalize concepts held within contemporary dance by way of an intersection with social practice; critical pedagogy; somatic and contemplative investigations; queer; feminist; and black studies; performance and visual art studies; and the political and philosophical meshes of personal history.
taisha paggett and WXPT, breathingholdinglistening practice
In conjunction with Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 1, 2018.
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