taisha paggett: soliloquy for a horizon

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taisha paggett, “soliloquy for a horizon,” 2024

production still (courtesy of the Gallery)

Remai Modern presents a new performance and exhibition by Southern California-based artist, taisha paggett. An interdisciplinary dance artist, paggett’s work contemplates and interrupts fixed histories of Black and queer embodiment, desire, placemaking, possibility and survival. Her practice is rooted in the body with a deep understanding of how the complex social, historical and political implications of her body relate to the production of knowledge.  

soliloquy for a horizon is part of paggett’s ongoing examination of Black survival and relational land practices across Turtle Island (US and Canada). paggett’s 2021 project, com.pleats.we (housecoat) responded to Allensworth, the first town in California to be founded, financed, and governed by an Black community, while her 2018 project, i believe in echoes, engaged with the history of Hogan’s Alley to consider the residue of Black displacement in Vancouver. soliloquy for a horizon is paggett’s first project on the Canadian prairies, and draws on the history of the Shiloh People, a community who strategically fled the US to forge Saskatchewan’s first Black settlement in 1910. Developed in collaboration with meital yaniv and Chris Kuhl, this project aims to weave a thread about Black becoming across the prairies, through the life and afterlife of 20^th-century dancer and model Maudelle Bass Weston and a palimpsest of burial sites, drowned archives, and the possibilities of landing as resistance.