MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS PROGRAM
In consideration of annual curatorial themes related to our values, the Multidisciplinary Arts Program aligns with our vision to integrate arts into the Compound’s spaces, shaping the built environment as a catalyst for creative exploration and collective dialogue. Artists are invited to conduct investigations across our common spaces—the galleries, garden, courtyard, parking lot, alley—continuously reshaping our terrain through inquiry and social reflection. In tandem with the Compound’s ongoing performing arts series and live/work program, MDAP will activate our exhibition spaces and provide opportunities for the community to engage with highlighted artists.
2025 INAUGURAL THEME
Balanced Nutrition is never a given—it is a performance, a regulation, an imposition. From ecological disturbances to social hierarchies, from metabolic systems to cultural metabolism, from passive imbalance to active occupation in the rigid system, the Compound will trace the forces that shape our desire for naturalness of balance and sustain our illusions of equilibrium, probing the hidden forces that dictate what we consume—bodily, socially, and politically. If balance is both the goal and the intervention, the measure and myth, how do we begin to unmake it? How can artistic practice function as metabolic occupation—absorbing, transforming, and unsettling rigid systems?
Through this year’s artistic explorations, the Compound constructs a visual art ecosystem from scratch, questioning who defines the "right balance" of nourishment—whether physical, cultural, or ideological. For the Multidisciplinary Arts Program’s trial year, the Compound offers a visual arts ecosystem that starts from scratch, from “nature.” How do we collectively construct a nutritional relationship with ourselves, artists, artworks, and the public? Do we start with this morphological experiment and read aloud a manifesto that persistently dismantles this word “balance” ?