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

About Hole to Hole:

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.

Additional readers to be announced!

Visit Portals at Studio 105 during gallery hours, Wednesday–Sunday 12–6PM through September 20.

Image: Hole to Hole, published by Many Folds Press, Late Spring 2026, courtesy of Many Folds Press

Image Description: Photo of two books, one open and one closed. A hand holds the pages open, revealing a foldout, and gray text and image on cream paper. The book cover is a royal blue, with a yellow plastic fastener.