Hole to Hole — Book Release

Join Portals co-curator Connie Yu for a reading and release of their riso-printed book, published by Many Folds Press.
About this Event

"Hole is something to aim for, or something to avoid. Hole is something to punch and/or mend, to dig and/or fill. Hole from which to peep, hole that leaks. Hole is a subject, and/or an abject form of being. Hole is an absence, and a metaphor for absence. Hole takes on meaning across social, sexual, material fields, and as easily releases all meaning — so gutting it is.

Hole is portal, of course, and a puncture to the binary, the two-sided pane. After hole, no longer can inside be neat from outside. Hole foretells erosion of the built environment, its corollary built comforts — a loss of containment, control. Something will seep, if not flood, in or out or both.

Here, hole holds space wide open for these assignments. After all, hole is also a surface, with surface area. These elegies, essays, rubbings, revisions were made in reverence of hole, the feeling that comes from unknown depth or latitude, from reverberations of its impact."

Image courtesy of Many Folds Press