HOME / LAND has been invited to participate in the
2026 Oregon Contemporary Artist’s Biennial:
The Price of the Ticket
RUNNING JUNE 18TH thru JUNE 28TH
Zidell Yards
3121 South Moody Ave
Portland, OR 97239
About the Biennial:
The exhibition will explore the interconnected themes of place, power, and promise, especially as they relate to our complex relationships with the land, our histories, and our nations. It will act as a response to the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This pivotal document emancipated the 13 American colonies from British rule, establishing the new nation with the promise of certain “unalienable rights” to all citizens. Since its signing, there have been long and violent battles over who is considered a citizen and therefore granted rights and protection under the law. Often the most vulnerable of us are left to reconcile the disparities between ideal and reality. The exhibition takes its title from Black American writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin’s proposed book of the same title. The Price of the Ticket was intended to explore the political realities of post-Civil Rights era America—progress and the lack thereof. The book was never finished.
“The first part of empathy and change is listening. That’s at the heart of this piece. It’s to question ownership of land, being mindful that nature was here before you. Indigenous communities were here before you. What is home, and how have we treated the notion of ‘home’ and why put up borders and flags and keep people out?” - Erika Latta, Co-Creator.”
About HOME / LAND:
HOME / LAND is an immersive journey along the paths of personal and collective memories. Within a context of critical instability, when displacement and forced migrations have caused many to leave their homes and everything they hold dear, audience members are each assigned a temporary unit in a fictional government-run shelter village called Lot 6B..
HOME / LAND takes you on a journey to explore the past and present times experienced in Portland, Oregon, and the US at large. The show asks audiences to reflect on the forces that have worked over the centuries to bring living beings here as well as caused them to leave..
HOME / LAND is a unique outdoor experience that invites audiences to reflect on their personal relationship with the place they call home and their hopes for what its future might hold. It asks the important questions about the ownership of land, the notion of home, and why we put up borders and flags to keep people out. This show is a collaboration between Portland's Hand2Mouth Theatre, France's Begat Theater, and NYC's WaxFactory.
With only 40 tickets available each night, HOME/LAND is an exclusive experience that should not be missed. Each ticket is for an exact entry time, allowing the audience to travel through the installation, approximately ¾ of a mile, during the performance. The show lasts approximately one hour, and as it is an outdoor experience, masks are optional, and comfortable shoes are recommended.
Audiences Rave:
“That was a masterpiece of interactive theatre... At once deeply personal and universal, intimate and epic in scope, heartfelt and unnerving in all the right ways. A fascinating multi-layered examination of living through disaster, the illusion of permanence, the work our ancestors undertook simply to get us here, and what it means to really feel safe. I can't recommend this strongly enough.” - William Thomas Berk, Playwright/Producer
“It was so lovely and the attention to detail was breathtaking. This is the first show I’ve been outside of the theatre space that really melds the outside world with the performance. The storytelling and the physical space co-existed so beautifully. The design and layout of everything also really allowed the stories to be heard, but not exploited. I was just filled with so many emotions.” - Yasmin Ruvalcaba, Artist
“HOME / LAND is a beautiful, haunting, thrilling, tremendous piece of art. It pushes the limits of what theatre can be and calls its audience participants in to contemplate the themes of displacement, safety, and community in an immersive experience that is heartfelt, sensitive, moving, and full of small surprises.” - Ashley Mellinger, Artist
"HOME / LAND is an artful composite of forgotten histories and their forgotten people, magically set underneath the Ross Island Bridge.I feel fortunate to have witnessed this worthy experiment." - DeReau Farrar, Musician/Artist