Talia Isaacson
Cooler Room Artist in Residence
June/July
The word “heirloom” derives from the Middle English words “heir” and “loom” — which, together, describe a tool or implement passed down from one generation to another. In my residency at Art Produce, I will be working on poems that reconsider my own stutter as an heirloom, asking: what, in and around ourselves, can we reconsider as an ancestral tool? What possibilities emerge when we do so?
Alongside this work, I will lead a workshop inviting others to reconsider an aspect of their own inheritances, identities, and bodies as an heirloom, as a tool. The material shared in this workshop will be housed in an online heirloom “library”, inspired by past and present agricultural collectives and tool-sharing practices, particularly in their knowledge of community resilience and regeneration.
Cooler Room Artist in Residence
June/July
The word “heirloom” derives from the Middle English words “heir” and “loom” — which, together, describe a tool or implement passed down from one generation to another. In my residency at Art Produce, I will be working on poems that reconsider my own stutter as an heirloom, asking: what, in and around ourselves, can we reconsider as an ancestral tool? What possibilities emerge when we do so?
Alongside this work, I will lead a workshop inviting others to reconsider an aspect of their own inheritances, identities, and bodies as an heirloom, as a tool. The material shared in this workshop will be housed in an online heirloom “library”, inspired by past and present agricultural collectives and tool-sharing practices, particularly in their knowledge of community resilience and regeneration.
About the Artist:
Talia Isaacson practices poetry as defined by Alice Oswald: that is, poetry as “not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible.” Informed by embodied experience with a glottal block stutter, Talia’s work dwells in the agricultural and ecological, working to understand patterns of fluency and the wisdom in derailing them. She is from San Diego, California, and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia.
Instagram: @talisaacson
Talia Isaacson practices poetry as defined by Alice Oswald: that is, poetry as “not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible.” Informed by embodied experience with a glottal block stutter, Talia’s work dwells in the agricultural and ecological, working to understand patterns of fluency and the wisdom in derailing them. She is from San Diego, California, and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia.
Instagram: @talisaacson
