Collecting Anxiety

Collecting Anxiety presents a series of exhibitions based on people‘s anxious voices collected from all over the world.

Collecting Anxiety aims to build up a moving assemblage connected by shared repressed feelings. It invites one to take off negative/positive dualistic definitions, and to activate the multi-subjectivity and nomadic energy of life and its relation to community and multi others.

Becoming-nomadic marks the transformation of the pain of loss into an active production of multiple forms of belongings. Here what once is lost in the fixed pattern has proceeded in a multiple rhizomatic manner that transcends the bilateralism of identity structure.

The project is developed as an open space that allows personal voices as well as collective stories interlink. Through collaborative processes, we wish to invoke openness in our anxious time and to measure the relations in new modes of communication while re-thinking ways of mapping and writing in socio/techno/political/spiritual landscapes.

Series: To Collect, To Bridge, To Stage, To Fly

Initiated by Negation International
Multi Venues, New York City and Worldwide

Director/Curator: Chiarina Chen

Artists: Vargas-Suarez Universal, Barry Rosenthal, Wayne Liu, Lizzy Devita, Chris Devita, Mark Bleakley

Featured Musicians:Stephen Barber, Bob Malach, Emilie Weibel, Ari Finkel, Nikhil Shah

Photography: Zixi Wu, David Xie
Press:Kuma Midil
Event Assistant: Ann Shi

*How it works

"Signal” cards are sent to invite people to send sound recordings whenever they felt frustrated, anxious or depressed based on their own definitions of anxiety. Any vulnerability, stress, anxiety, subtle moments in daily life or intense struggle are all welcomed