I am & In the face of god & 10:28,30
Paige Taul 

Paige Taul’s work engages with assumptions of black cultural expressions and notions of belonging through experimental cinematography. As a part of her filmmaking practice she tests the boundaries of identity and self-identification through autoethnography to approach notions of racial authenticity. Her interests lie in observing environmental and familial connections to concepts tied to race based expectations and to expose those boundaries of identity in veins such as religion, style, language, and other black community based experiences.

HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark is showing the artist’s video works I am (2017), In the face of god (2018) and 10:28,30 (2019).

In I am (2017) the artist interviews her mother Jessica about her relationships with her family, religion, and blackness.

In the work In the face of god (2018) Taul explores serendipity (an unplanned fortunate discovery) in the meeting of her parents mediated through a championship boxing match.

10:28,30 (2019) features Taul’s sister, who expands on the dissonance of the lives lived and not lived in the relationships with her twin sister and her mother’s acting career.

The films are available on the Study Room website up to and including October 7, 2021.