VECTOR#7: Past The Breaking Point

Description

VECTOR is an annual exhibition of contemporary performance and time-based art. In each edition, artefacts in different mediums are presented alongside a programme of live performance. VECTOR#7: Past The Breaking Point portrays two distinct, unstable performance worlds, where bodies persist, mutate, and reconfigure themselves in response to collapsing structures. In Hokuto Kodama’s Wound and Ground , the body is situated within a world shaped by the lingering socio-political atmosphere of Japan’s Heisei era, where regulation and internalised discipline govern how bodies move, gather, and exist. In contrast, Weixin Quek Chong and Astrid Sweeney imagine a body no longer bound to human coherence. Drawing from insect molting, queer ecologies, and speculative fiction, ontogenesis dreaming constructs an amorphous organism that continuously disassembles and reconfigures itself. Across the exhibition, artefacts, scenographic elements, and performative traces extend these choreographic inquiries into spatial and temporal installations. VECTOR#7 invites audiences to move between states of witnessing and sensing, encountering bodies that undergo cycles of pressure, rupture, and reconfiguration in response to internal and systemic forces. Together, the works ask: what forms can a body take when the ground beneath it no longer holds? The programme of VECTOR#7 will also include studio presentations by participants of da:ns LAB 2026 . VECTOR#7 is supported by The Japan Foundation.