How do you give shape to darkness? 50 Años/50 acciones (50 Years/50 art actions) - Mesa 8, Chile
How do you give shape to darkness? By Lisa Crossman This project begins from conversations about the things that wake us up at night—the traumas that we know in our bodies and can’t find or trust language to describe. The project begins in a place of wondering about the exchange of traumas in relationship with our families and partners, collaborators and friends, communities and political entities during our lifetimes and across generations. How do we define trauma? How do we live with our own traumas and witness the traumas of those with whom we are in relation? Does trauma exist without a collective accounting of it? We each come to this body of work from different personal experiences that have caused us trauma and lenses through which to understand the theoretical frameworks, the stories, the studies, histories, and philosophical touchstones that we read in search of the vocabulary that we don’t yet know. We seek words to help us describe the experiences that we’...
