Whisper into a Hole
Indigo Gonzales, Rebecca Copper, Anna Freeman, Minus Plato
On view at Hopkins Hall Gallery
Let’s dig a hole, whisper into it, and see what we can grow. Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but today we have broken ground…
-Minus Plato blogpost (November 2018)
Whisper into a Hole is a reflective exhibitionary experience that emphasizes relationality, collaboration, and participation. Evolving out of the need to work in a collaborative manner, Indigo Gonzales, Rebecca Copper, Anna Freeman, and Minus Plato come together to celebrate and share the critical work of Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and scholars. Following the call to unsettle institutions, Whisper into a Hole opens up a gap within the white cube of a Land-Grab research university, to create a radical space for unlearning. This gap comprises a cooperative library Potu faitautusi/Reading Room, relocated from Columbus Printed Arts Center (CPAC), which focuses on Indigenous storytelling and art making and as a space for listening and learning, unapologetically. Reproduced blog posts, images, posters, magazines, gallery guides, readers, and radio shows, through mechanisms of the photocopier and the take-away, offer tools for a threshold whereby visitors are encouraged to walk away with reading materials to reconsider how art can be thought and to sow the seeds of a shared future.
Additional information about the exhibition and featured artists
Whisper into a Hole was made possible through the generous support of the Columbus Printed Arts Center, the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University, and K'acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration supported by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme at The Ohio State University.
Whisper into a Hole is presented in partnership with Urban Arts Space's Hybrid Arts Lab, a multi-venue learning lab that experiments with how art is imagined, made, viewed and understood.
