Be A Hero
B.1990 Louisville, Kentucky. Taylor Ashby Hawkins is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Taylor attended Columbus College of Art and Design for Painting. After graduating in 2012, he moved to Brooklyn and graduated with his MFA from Columbia University in 2017. Taylor’s installation at No Place reflects the visual environment of gaming onto the world we live in. There is agency for the performers to become influenced by an anonymous community of watchers via social media, or in this specific case Twitch.TV. The work examines how a player may control the actions of not a virtual figure, but a physical body. One person has to process and execute a command given by another.
