HYPERVIGILANCE - In an age of digital saturation, global unrest, and pervasive surveillance, artists are increasingly exploring the cultural and psychological state of hypervigilance that seems to define our era. The works in this year’s INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition expose the collective anxiety of a society on high alert, where we struggle to retain agency over our image, body, and voice. For queer, disabled, and displaced communities, this state of watchfulness is deeply ingrained, a survival instinct in a world built on scrutiny and exclusion. For others, it has become the new norm shaped by 24-hour news cycles, extractive capitalism, authoritarian violence, and the pressure to conform in a world where we’re always being watched.
