Ryan Tacata is a performance maker and writer based in Vancouver, BC. His collaborative art practice is situated between live art and social practice, and engages in place making, ordinary acts, and gift-giving. More recent works include a
minor repair. (2019), an archive-based response commissioned by the City of Chicago for the exhibition goat island archive—we have discovered the performance by making it;
Lolas (2017), a performance installation in honor of Filipino grandmothers (Asian Art Museum, SF); and dancing in
Doggie Hamlet (2015–) by Ann Carlson, a site-specific dance with four human performers, sheep herding dogs, and 30+ sheep. His performance work has been presented at the Asian Art Museum, Stanford University, the City of Chicago, Court Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Museum of Performance + Design, and The Momentary. His writing has appeared in Performa, TDR, Performance Research and SFMoMA's OpenSpace. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Stanford University with Erika Chong Shuch (2021-22), on the board of directors of the Western Front, and Assistant Professor of Performance at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University.