Exhibition - Outer Voice: Kinds of Time

Curated by Jason Le and Outer Voice

Reception Saturday April 6, 2024 5pm - 8pm

Performance Program Saturday April 6, 2024 6pm
Featuring claire barerra Will you with me? and Qi You Blockwalking.
Please wear mismatching shoes to partake in Blockwalking, we will have some extras.

Outer Voice: Kinds of Time will present recent works and works-in-progress from the 2023/24 Outer Voice Season with Portland artists: claire barrera, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Rubén García Marrufo, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and Qi You. This show is collaboratively curated by Outer Voice and Jason Le, an arts writer and thinker also based in Portland. This multidisciplinary exhibition of time-based art will include a gallery exhibition as well as a program of performance in the gallery on April 6 at 6pm, during the show's reception from 5-8pm.

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. 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.

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 many of the workshops are open to the public. Outer Voice's location within Studio 4 at Oregon Contemporary enables supportive artistic and practical exchange between organizations and people within the complex.

Themes in Outer Voice: Kinds of Time 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. Underlying these themes is the group's exploration of the notion that time can be perceived differently through each of the works.

Outer Voice welcomes guest Jason Le to explore the themes listed above as a collaborator in planning,  discussions, and writing about the meanings at play and the perception of time in the exhibition.