Outer Voice, Show 01
Sat Dec 2, 2023, 12pm–5pm
Studio 4 open
Sat Dec 2, 2023, 3pm–4pm
Performance and Video
Program in Platform
Sun Dec 3, 2023, 12pm–2pm
Studio 4 open
Outer Voice, Studio 4
Oregon Contemporary
8371 N. Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97217
www.outervoicepdx.com
Outer Voice, Show 01 will present recent works and works-in-progress from the 2023/24
Cohort: Claire Barrera, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Rubén García Marrufo, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and Qi You.
Show 01 will include a gallery exhibition in Studio 4, as well as a program of performance and video work in Platform Sat Dec 2 at 3pm. Both spaces are located within Oregon Contemporary. Staff at the entrance desk can direct visitors to the spaces.
Themes in Show 01 include the experimental telling of immigrant, mixed-race, and queer experiences, the voices of mothers addressing invisible labor, re-examination of communication, the challenging of hypercapitalism, and the inseparability of art and life.
The group of seven has been meeting since October 2023 using a model of "open workshops" where the group shares work, concerns, and ideas while the workshops are open to the public. Outer Voice's location within Oregon Contemporary enables supportive artistic and practical exchange between organizations and others within the complex.
Outer Voice is a time-based arts alliance started in 2023 by Portland video artist and writer Sarah Rushford. The mission is to provide space, community, support, and opportunity to local time-based artists and to foster community dialog around time-based art. Outer Voice helps build relationships based on a grounded, informed, and supportive critical dialogue among local time-based artists. They practice, exhibit, celebrate, and program together, sharing resources, forming artistic and personal bonds, and linking with a broader network of artists, art organizations, and community members.
Programming related to the exhibition What Was Lost and What Remains will follow Outer Voice's live program, and the Nat Turner Project: Drinking Gourd Fellowship 2 Exhibition, as well as shows at Carnation Contemporary and Well Well Projects, as well as other works are currently on view at Ox.
image: Claire Barrera, Graduation, 2023, movement performance with video