Group Exhibition for A Mouth Holds Many Things
Curated by Dao Strom & Jyothi Natarajan / De-Canon
This exhibit is an extension of the publication project of A Mouth Holds Many Things, a print anthology of experimental, visual-poetic, and hybrid-literary works by 36 women and nonbinary BIPOC writers, published by Portland-based independent press Fonograf Editions (in collaboration with De-Canon). As a project that spans book publication, exhibit, and engagement practices, A Mouth Holds Many Things aims to blur boundaries between modes and mediums, presenting the book as an exhibit and extending the experience of reading literary works beyond the page.
Book and exhibit are co-edited and co-curated by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan, as a project of De-Canon.
The exhibition for A Mouth Holds Many Things features visual-textual artworks by 12 of the artists also featured in the print anthology: Stephanie Adams-Santos, Samiya Bashir, Jennifer S. Cheng, Carolina Ebeid, Nadia Haji Omar and Christine Shan Shan Hou, Vi Khi Nao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Monica Ong, Paisley Rekdal, Sasha Stiles, Anna Martine Whitehead.
Works in the exhibit will include: video poems, digital multimedia, fabric/textile books, book art objects, image-text and visual-poetry print works, poetry-and-painting collaborations.
Print copies of A Mouth Holds Many Things will be available for viewing and purchase at Stelo. Spanning experimental poetry and prose, image-text, collage, performance text, AI-generated writing, asemic writing, and more, this 300+-page, full-color volume illuminates and expands the interstitial spaces where text blends, blurs, and morphs with visual and other media. The works in this collection explore the creative possibilities of language, and in so doing aim to challenge our precepts of reading and writing.
A project of the Portland-based literary-social art project, De-Canon, which creates unique spaces and experiments to center works by writers of color, this collection is edited by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan. Published as a joint publication of Fonograf Editions and De-Canon.
See complete info on A Mouth Holds Many Things here: de-canon.com/book-page
Purchase the print anthology from Fonograf Editions.
View the exhibit at Stelo Arts from June 6-July 28, 2024.