T.A.C. Spot: May 2022

Friday, May 27, 2022

Last week to see #Matriarch on view in Venice, Italy

For immediate release:

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

May 27th, 2022

Posted by Tara Chadwick

Amid all the tragic crises we are experiencing in our communities and around the world, our unfolding, as a conscious, compassionate, caring species is in a process of emergence. We are as yet incapable of creating the conditions necessary for completing our collective pursuit of competence as an interconnected variable within the web of life however, all the potential to achieve our goal of becoming human beings lies within us! We need to realize, observe, analyze and heal. Then inevitably, one at a time, and together, we will take flight!

During the pandemic, while the pre-COVID norms of in-person meetings, classes and presentations were unsafe to facilitate, my daily walks became a disciplined meditation allowing me to focus on what is happening in the microcosm surrounding me. The #Matriarch series is a reflection of the hope and beauty I continue to see in nature at a time when human grief seems insurmountable.

The attached exhibition review is my third in Venice this year, starting with the Venice Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival on opening day of the Biennale de Venezia last month, continuing with a digital display at the Biennale Artbox Expo at Spazio Tana just over the footbridge from Arsenale, culminating with Anima Mundi at Palazzo Albrizzi Capello. I am grateful for these opportunities to share a little bit of who I am with the rest of the world. It is my hope to inspire awareness, appreciation and action to protect and preserve the delicate balance that allows life to continue to flourish within our changing climate, communities and consciousness.

TChadwick 5.27.22

Matriarch

Anima Mundi: Consciousness

(click link above for exhibition review)

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Proyecto Papalotl Presents: Lifecycle of a Butterfly with Tara Chadwick

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Friday, May 6, 2022

Venice Experimental Performance Reportage

May 6, 3022

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Amid the flurry of opening day at the long awaited Biennale de Venezia, Tara Chadwick, an Indigenous Belizean/ Canadian based in Broward County, Florida presented a short film honoring her lifelong artistic practice in dance and nature immersion.

Still image from "Earth • Ecology • Everglades" courtesy Adrienne Chadwick

"Earth • Ecology • Everglades" grew out of a project to provide residents and visitors with a taste of the rhythms, sights, smells and sounds found in the intersection of humans and the natural environment. Funded in part by a grant from the Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Broward Cultural Division, Proyecto Papalotl has engaged communities across and beyond South Florida in interactive presentations since 2014. During the beginning of the COVID pandemic, alternate ways of connecting with community were explored including utilization of different forms of artistic expression: livestreaming, digital recording, audio, film and still images. The short film is accompanied by a National Geograhic certified intergenerational lesson plan with the same title. More about last month's Venice Experimental Performing Arts Festival can be found at https://www.itsliquid.com/review-experimental-venice-2022.html

[Image of Earth • Ecology • Everglades on view at Palazzo Bembo courtesy of Its Liquid Group]

Currently Tara Chadwick has two additional works on view in Venice, both of which expand on the theme of exploring the unfurling of our identity, purpose and responsibility as humans living in an Earth ecosystem that we are rapidly changing. #Matriarch will open at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello on Thursday, May 12 as part of "Anima Mundi CONSCIOUSNESS" and is also on view as a digital lightbox work at Spazio Tana / Tanarte, just across the canal from the Biennial's Arsenale through May 31. Limited edition prints available.

#Matriarch made her debut in Fort Myers last October, then hung as a public art billboard over 27th Avenue during Art Miami Week/ Art Basel from November through January.

Broward County residents and visitors can join Tara Chadwick for an interactive workshop in collaboration with the Miramar Community Garden on Saturday May 14th at 10 am.

Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council. Background mural courtesy of Valery Amor, Tara Chadwick, Mictla Chadwick, Ihiyo Chadwick, Talyn Skye Bell and Dr. Debbie Danard Wilson. Limited mobility, vision and hearing assistance available, please email wabigun@yahoo.com with detailed request one week prior to event date.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Conscious!

My third #Venice2022 art opening will be held 5 pm May 12th at Palazzo Albrizzi Capello, La Biennale di Venezia.

#Matriarch 3 (the hand framed canvas print, not the billboard that hung over 27th Avenue in Miami during last winter's Art Basel show, nor the digital work on view at Spazio Tana / Tanarte now through May 31st).

Matriarch 3 will be on view as part of "Anima Mundi: Consciousness"

Press release

VENUE

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello

Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (ACIT)

Cannaregio 4118, 30121 Venezia, Italy

OPENING May 12, 2022 | 05:00PM

ON VIEW May 13 – June 03, 2022

09:30AM – 05:30PM | Monday – Friday

Let me know if you are able to head over and see it!

#TaraAChadwick

SELECTED ARTISTS

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello

Artist statement

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

#Matriarch on view in Venice, Italy

Now through May 31, you can go get a glimpse of #Matriarch at Tanarte / Spazio Tana just across the bridge from the Arsenale of La Biennale de Venezia.

As a satellite to the world's most important art show, the Biennale Art Expo provides local and international artists with the opportunity to learn about the global art market by participating. Prizes, competitions and proposals are what seems to make the art world go around and there are plenty of platforms and calls to explore.

As a curator and museologist, my work has always been focused on educating and inspiring the public by presenting someone else's art. It is decidedly more difficult to find ways of promoting one's own work. However at this time in our human history I feel it is my responsibility to share, on as large a scale as possible, a window into the intimate relationship we humans have with our environment. Whether we carry that awareness with us every moment of every day, or forget until we take a vacation or a walk on the beach, we ARE the earth and the Earth is US. We need to use all our tools, power and creativity to start acting as though we care about ourselves, each other and our Mother the Earth.

Matriarch is a reminder to us. Of the cycles of life. And of our responsibility to be accountable for the actions that we allow to happen. We may not always feel empowered to make changes that may often seem outside of our ability to effect. But each need to make that extra effort to work together to achieve a way of living on the Earth that does not harm ourselves.

We are all children of Mother Earth. We are free and life is fleeting. Our responsibility is to ensure that life can continue to unfold for the coming generations.

Let's use this moment of newness and unfurling to get ready to organize, then take flight!!!!

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