Brooklyn, NY
Taxilandia Gallery
An opportunity to experience the past and present of Bushwick.
TAXILANDIA GALLERY: An opportunity to experience the past and present of Bushwick. While walking the neighborhood, guests will take in the sights, sounds and history of the barrio—the part Vogue wasn't talking about. Each installation features original poetry, video and sound design work, and is based at a local business that is an important patch in the fabric of an ever-changing neighborhood. The Taxilandia Gallery is free to visit from April 5–May 3, 2021.
Audience Role
None--this is an installation viewed from outside storefront windows
Ages: All ages
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About Taxilandia
Taxilandia, created and written by Oye Group’s Modesto Flako Jimenez, is a site-specific play-within-a-ride of a city. The piece immerses its audience in the flavors, sounds, sights and dynamic history of a neighborhood confronting social stigmas and the realities of gentrification. Weaving a dramatic, performative ‘tapestry’ that interconnects generations, social classes, races and cultures, Taxilandia complicates our notion of what it means to be a local, an immigrant or a resident of a place, challenging us to answer: “What is my personal roadmap of home?” Originally developed in Jimenez’s own neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, the piece was inspired and drawn from his nine years driving a taxicab and his documentation of conversations with passengers, residents, locals, and immigrants to the neighborhood. The Oye Group now works with companies all over the country to develop local versions of the piece specific to each city.