Peng Hsu + Diego Gil

Peng Hsu — Cucumbers, the Melancholy of a Turtle, and a Girl Otaku’s Romance

Peng Hsu’s work begins with a surreal premise:

“So it was true,” thought the village chief, “cucumbers are falling from the sky.”

By this point, cucumbers have already knocked over several middle-school students, including five from the advanced math and science class. A primary school student, looking up to watch the birds, saw a cucumber fall straight into his mouth. Since then, he has not spoken a word. In the notebook he now uses to communicate, the child writes: “We open our mouths; thus comes disaster.” The local authorities are deeply unsettled. After all, cucumbers force people to grow up too quickly.

Diego Gil — El sentir de las superficies

Diego Gil’s El sentir de las superficies tells a personal and speculative story in the form of a queer cosmological science fiction exploring alternative modes of perception of architectural environments that act upon the climate of our bodies.

Through everyday actions, dance, and installation, this solo suggests that desire exists beyond the boundaries of the body. Architecture and surrounding objects prompt us to act, yet the connection between the performer’s interactions with their environment and the text they recites remains elusive.

This disjunction sharpens our perception, revealing an atmospheric relational aura that detaches itself from objects—always on the verge of disappearing.