TACO! is an non for profit artist-led organisation supporting research, production, and exchange in Thamesmead and SE London. We understand artistic practice to be a social tool for making the world anew. We aim to foster artists and art practices as valued, vital and useful to creative communities, civil society, and the realisation of shared equitable futures.
TACO! is conceived as an ongoing artistic enquiry that is embedded, socially engaged, and explores what art can be and do. We centre artists and the creative agency of communities in the way we develop and grow. Our activities are experimental and collaborative, supporting learning and exchange between artists, audiences, community and place.
TACO! invites artists to lead an enquiry by researching, developing and realising projects over a dedicated period of time. Projects initiated by artists vary in duration, with an open timeframe and no set expectations on outcomes, but with a focus on ‘making practice public’.
This artist research informs a diverse public programme that includes exhibitions, events, discussions, workshops, broadcasts, screenings, publishing, and co-authored participatory projects with communities, groups, children and young people.
Our collaborative and engaged participatory projects address or explore social concerns that are important to communities and people’s lived experience.
