Claiming Places: Unity, Ownership, and âHogarâ (Home) is a concerted effort to use art to reveal, question, engage and stimulate community dialogue on questions of “ownershipâ and the consequences of making a space your own. Exhibiting works from a muralist, a choreographer, an installation artist, and a local community artist, the places explored in this cycle will be both communal and personal. They are perceived in architecture and design and are based on intentional decisions made or not made by both individuals and the community. Subsequently, the exhibition cycle will delve into the meaning, implication, and outcomes of these choices. Ultimately, it will be a chance for Taller to examine what it means to be a part of something larger as Taller takes additional steps in its quest to build a new state-of-the-art cultural center in the heart of its community.
The season will consist of performance art, installations, two-dimensional work; the use of non-traditional exhibit space like Tallerâs newly developed exhibition area, âEl VestÃbuloâ, at the entrance of its store; and two- panel discussions. These conversations will be comprised of artists (including those from the exhibitions), activists, scholars and local citizens who will analyze these transformational forces and provide context and open dialogue. The dialogue will be further supported, encouraged and promoted through Tallerâs website, in which information, i.e. back-story on each show, is updated throughout the cycle; essays on the exhibit by Tallerâs curator, the Executive Director, Architect J.C. Calderon, and others; detailed information on the panels, topics, panelists and bios etc. will be included. Concurrently, Tallerâs Education Program participants will be exploring the questions posed by this curatorial proposition resulting in the already mentioned exhibition in The Vestibule.âClaiming Placesâ explores these themes through the exploration of different spaces, the work of four artists, both local and regional, and the work of Tallerâs education program participants. Artists and participants will be given artistic freedom to explore topics of history, community and space and consider the pressures of flux versus permanence and the impact of these on identity, resistance, resilience, rootedness, development, and connectedness.
To learn more about the exhibition visit the exhibition website here.
