Home Is A Hard Place To Find

Home Is A Hard Place To Find

Michael Taiwo

7.11 min (PAUSE to EXIT) Located only on the bridge of Riva dei Sette Martiri near the Giardini Vaparetto stop.

‘Home Is A Hard Place To Find’ is a spoken text that creates a dialogue that isn’t specifically set anywhere and borrows descriptions that match a myriad of places that can be read to be familiar and foreign by an audience. There are interchangeable references to gender and race. The perspective of the narration is in constant flux, which displaces who is being referred to and the relevance of the individual to the narrative. In the age of globalization in which international migration is a constant, who are we in relation to others?

Michael Taiwo is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on questioning the role of race in the perception of identity and challenging the conventions of gender roles through spoken word and movement based works. His work fixates on the interplay of these elements to create narratives that capture moments of vulnerability in their rawest form.

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