{"id":2196,"date":"2023-03-08T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/cooper-gallery-inbetween\/?page_id=2196"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:30:37","slug":"tako-taal-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/cooper-gallery-inbetween\/tako-taal-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Tako Taal, May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What I am Reading Now\u2026
Tako Taal<\/strong>
May 2022<\/p>


I started reading\u00a0Chantal Akerman\u2019s<\/strong>,\u00a0My Mother Laughs<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>last summer and it absorbed me entirely. It is a shuddery account of\u00a0Chantal<\/strong>\u00a0caring for her dying mother.\u00a0 I return to its painful detail in the love and hurt of a maternal relationship. In the Silver Press edition, Eileen Myles introduces the book in the most stunning terms,<\/p>

I might think of this whole book as a sneeze. Or a black hole imploding. A cartoon deployment of feeling into temporary space with unclear boundaries that manages to hold the entire narrative, be it the relationship and the world, twinkling in a momentary gory splendour in which everything shows till it fades, midsummer dream like.<\/em><\/p>

This winter I made public a four-year project in the shape of an exhibition titled\u00a0At the shore, everything touches,\u00a0<\/em>a few months later Nain, my maternal grandmother died. Both endings were expected, considered, planned for even and yet\u2026\u00a0 To put these two events in sequence, in a sentence is not to reduce or to draw equivalences. Their proximity is something about inevitable ends, a moment that is easy to anticipate but difficult to feel for. A new kind of space, a pause, an accumulation that requires thinking around stuff, a redistribution, and a reconfiguration of the selves.\u00a0 My selection here as well as revealing\u00a0what I am reading now<\/em>\u00a0are texts I have gathered around me in an attempt to parse the feelings of these transitions. A foundation to move from.<\/p>

In a recent,\u00a0in conversation<\/em>\u00a0event at DCA with Kandace Siobhan Walker, we spoke about the companionship of writers, laughing at how we cited some authors by their first names and how they feel like our friends. My books were in storage until I found a studio recently so all of these books I am returning to. Some were gifts from friends and all have become companions.\u00a0 I\u2019m learning with these texts about pleasure, resistance, associative logics, distraction, and being with tension. I am thinking about everyday practices of creativity, how to play and how to embrace the unruly nature of sadness.\u00a0<\/p>

Kameelah<\/strong>\u00a0writes;\u00a0<\/p>

Finally, in the coherence we weep.<\/em><\/p>

Chantal<\/strong>\u00a0writes;\u00a0<\/p>

My mother appears at the door to the small bedroom.\u00a0<\/em>
Won\u2019t you talk to me for a minute, please.\u00a0<\/em>
Am I annoying you?<\/em><\/p>

Well, you should work those things out.<\/em><\/p>

Yes I\u2019ll work them out.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tako Taal<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is an artist and programmer living in Glasgow. Recent presentations include\u00a0At the shore, everything touche<\/i>s, Dundee Contemporary Arts,\u00a0Survey II<\/i>, Jerwood Arts (Touring UK) and NADA House, Governors Island New York. In 2021 as Associate Artist she produced\u00a0What happens to desire\u2026<\/i>\u00a0 six artist commissions for the 17th Edinburgh Art Festival, co-programmed\u00a0GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW<\/i>\u00a0with Adam Benmakhlouf for LUX Scotland\u2019s artists\u2019 moving image festival and was shortlisted for the 2021 Margaret Tait Award.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Reading<\/b><\/p><\/div>

No New Theories,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Kameelah Janan Rasheed\u00a0<\/span>(Printed Matter, 2019)<\/b><\/p><\/div>

My Mother Laughs,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Chantal Akerman (Silver Press, 2019)<\/b><\/p><\/div>

Mirror Reflecting Darkly The Rita Keegan Archive,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>(ed) Rita Keegan, Matthew Harle, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinsk<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>(MIT Press, 2021)<\/b><\/p><\/div>

She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>M NourbSe Philip, 1989 (Wesleyan University Press, reprint 2015)<\/b><\/p><\/div>

The Years,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Annie Ernaux (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018)<\/b><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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