“Altering Tensions” is a program putting together intriguing and evocative pieces focused on body, space, and trauma. The idea of shifting dynamics or pressures resonates well with the themes. Trauma often involves shifts or disruptions in the body and space—whether physical, psychological, or emotional—and “tensions” hint at conflict or strain. “Altering” adds a layer of transformation, which could reflect the way trauma reshapes one’s relationship to space and the body over time.
While “Altering Tensions” leaves space open to interpretation, yet invites us to a deeper engagement with a certain tension within the language itself, which mirrors the dilemma of the screening video performances and documentations instead of presenting the actions themselves. Altering tensions wishes to strike a good challenge between being suggestive without being overly explicit, while allowing each work to speak for itself within this conceptual frame, offering an optional and less visible thread, linking various instances in which mindscapes, maps, urban interactions dissolve into bodies in contrast with nature, architecture in the very peculiar way, a journey from personal to public and reverse.