About the artwork
Dao Strom
we breathe & breathing is (an) a|synchronous music, every body needs the air, 2020
Located on Vanport Building's south exterior wall, SW Harrison St.
About the artist
Dao Strom's primary material is language—which may articulate as text, music, image, sound, space, silence, and the intersections and juxtapositions of these elements in relation to one another. Using practices of fragmentation and assemblage, Strom "writes" arrangements of poetry, image, fragments, song, and sound, layering voices and their echoes, on the page and aurally, to be experienced as installation, performance, music, multimedia, and, more intimately, inside the spaces of a book. Reaching beyond a literate experience of reading, Strom’s work seeks to touch upon the ethos, textures, rhythms and musical frequencies involved in reading and receiving language.
Strom is a founding member of She Who Has No Master(s), a collective project of women artists and writers of the Vietnamese diaspora, co-facilitator of a PoC library collective/social engagement project, De-Canon, and the editor of diaCRITICS. See more of Dao Strom's work on her website.
These works were acquired through Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places Program, managed by the Oregon Arts Commission.
Banner image: Photo by Dallin Patterson.