Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience

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Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience

Don’t Shoot Portland

February 17 – March 27, 2022

Don’t Shoot Portland presents Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience at Holding Contemporary. The multimedia installation will open on Thursday, February 17 and run through Sunday, March 27, 2022. Gallery hours will be Thursday–Sunday, noon–5pm. Safety and social distancing requirements will still be in place. 

HOLDING Contemporary
916 NW Flanders St
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 444-7101
info@holdingcontemporary.com
www.holdingcontemporary.com

Feeling Documents is an installation that creates a timeline of artistry and politics using social trends, music, art and culture to promote each of their intersections to social justice. Art communicates revolutionary actions and inspiration for social change.

Race in America: A Liberated Archives Discussion
Monday, February 21, 2022
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time
White and yellow text on gray background
White paper documents on orange background
Juvenile Record book
Front door of Holding Contemporary gallery displaying Feeling Documents title and black and white photo collage
Typed letter on orange background
White papers on orange wall
Run Away paper posted on orange wall
Newpaper like print out on orange wall
White and yellow text on gray background
Black and white collage of people on wall
Black and white collage of people on wall
Record book with black and white photos
Juvenile Record book
Record book with black and white headshots of men
Record book with black and white headshots of men
Record book with black and white headshots of men
Record book with black and white headshots of men
Record book with black and white headshots of men
Record books on table in front of orange wall with white paper postings and gray wall covered with text
Orange wall with six letter size pieces of paper posted in a grid
Orange wall with six letter size pieces of paper posted in a grid
Orange wall with six letter size pieces of paper posted in a grid
Orange wall with six letter size pieces of paper posted in a grid
Record books open on white table
Gray gallery wall with text and orange wall with white papers posted
Glass window of Holding Contemporary gallery displaying photocopied text, papers, documents
Front building with door open at Holding Contemporary Gallery
Front building with door open at Holding Contemporary Gallery
Orange gallery wall with documents organized in grid
Orange gallery wall with documents organized in grid
Orange gallery wall with documents organized in grid
Orange gallery wall with documents organized in grid
Gray gallery wall with text from Tupac
Large scale black and white photo collage on wall
Large scale black and white photo collage on wall
Large scale black and white photo collage on wall inside Holding Contemporary
Interior walls of Holding Contemporary displaying large black and white photo collage, orange wall with text, gray wall with text
Interior walls of Holding Contemporary displaying large black and white photo collage, orange wall with text, gray wall with text
Interior walls of Holding Contemporary displaying large black and white photo collage, gray wall with text

Don’t Shoot Portland presents a community discussion surrounding the themes made visual through the Feeling Documents installation (February 17 – March 27, 2022 at HOLDING Contemporary, Portland), an exhibition that creates a timeline of artistry and politics using social trends, music, art and culture to promote each of their intersections to social justice.

Don’t Shoot Portland is a social justice organization that uses art, education and community engagement to create social change. Since 2014, their free programming and advocacy work has been done to promote civic participation in the spaces of racial justice and human rights.

www.dontshootpdx.org/ 

HOLDING Contemporary presents exhibitions and programs by visual artists across disciplines. Through a deliberate curatorial vision, an experimental business model, and community–driven projects, we position ourselves towards challenging the economical and social privilege of the art world.

This exhibition is made possible by the University of Oregon, Center for Art Research (CFAR) and Curators-in-Residence, Tiffany Harker and Iris Williamson. Their 2021-22 program, titled HABITS OF DENIAL, features research, exhibitions, and public programs around the theme of “access.” Collaborating artists investigate specific issues within larger systems of power and their embedded exclusionary impacts. Four anchoring programs will examine access through lenses of language and communication, technology and economies, communities and archives, and Indigeneity and institutions. Residency and related programming are made possible by The Ford Family Foundation. 

Special thanks to Karen Hsu, Designer at Omnivore.

Special thanks to Andrew Wang, Art and Architecture Librarian; Kate Thornhill, Digital Scholarship Librarian; and Franny Gaede, Director of Digital Scholarship Services at UO Libraries Art & Design Library and Digital Research, Education, and Media (DREAM) Lab.