Resistance begins long before anyone believes the performance has started.
As the audience enters the space, the performers are already engaged in a subtle choreography of tension—movements so faint, so unassuming, that they slip past perception. The work frames resistance not as a gesture of defiance staged for the eye, but as the quiet, continual negotiation a body endures under external pressure: a force that shapes, restricts, and provokes.

In collaboration with visual and performance artist Lucia, cellist Robert, and dancer Ceci, the piece unfolds as a slow escalation of these nearly invisible frictions. At first, the performers appear to be simply “present”—occupying the room without demanding attention. Their bodies respond to micro-pressures of balance, proximity, breath, and object; the bow hesitates against the string, weight shifts across the floor, materials absorb and deflect force.

Nothing announces itself as performance, and this is intentional. The audience is invited to experience the unsettling ambiguity of not knowing:
Is something happening? Should I be watching? Where is the threshold between ordinary space and performative space?

Only when the moderator signals the “beginning” does the tension that has been building—unseen, unremarked—suddenly become legible. What was previously overlooked becomes undeniable. The performers’ resistive actions intensify, revealing the physical and psychological labor that was always underway.

In Resistance, visibility is a consequence of attention rather than an inherent quality of the act. The work suggests that resistance often exists long before it is acknowledged—quietly accumulating, quietly insisting—until someone finally names it and compels others to face it.

Ultimately, the piece is less about staging conflict than about tracing the fragile boundary between perception and erasure, force and response, presence and recognition. Through the interplay of movement, sound, and material, Resistance exposes how bodies endure pressure, how they push back, and how easily their struggle can remain unseen.