TACO!’s activities are experimental and collaborative. Invited artists are supported to research, develop and realise projects over a dedicated period of time.  This research informs a public programme that includes exhibitions, events, discussions, workshops, screenings, publishing, and co-authored participatory projects with local people and groups. 

Projects initiated by artists vary in duration, we set an open timeframe with no set expectations on outcomes. Current artist projects include...

HOLLY GRAHAM
ACTION! - A HISTORY OF COMMUNITY LED ANTI RACISM

A research project by British artist Holly Graham that sets out to understand anti-racist community actions taken in Thamesmead and the surrounding area in the early 1990s. This period saw a rise in racial tensions within the area but there is currently minimal documentation reflecting these rifts and the important community led responses to counteract them.

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THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
TREE  TIME

Tree Time is a research project  by the Alternative School of Economics that looks at the specific relationship trees have with expansive notions of time as a  tool for thinking about and re-understanding human relationships with the natural environment, ecological complexity, and imagining the future.  The project looks at the value ascribed to both trees in the context of an urgent climate crisis; the role of financial capitalism, green economies and neoliberal life in contributing to or mitigating climate change.

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