Trembling Grounds: Push-Pull Practice is a thesis exhibition curated by Curatorial Practice MFA Program second-year student Rui Jiang. Running from March 14 to April 11, 2025, this exhibition dismantles and reconfigures the boundaries of art-making.

The show spotlights nine artists — Deborah Castillo, Roman Sheppard Dawson, Sasha Fishman, Elli Fotopoulou, Maya Gurantz, Scott Keightley, Lucia Shuyu Li, Andrew Luk, and Yuhan Shen — whose works delve into multi-centered discourses and span disciplines including performance, video, interdisciplinary sculpture, and site-specific installation. By bringing together these constantly evolving practices, Trembling Grounds examines the concept of "crossing" as a transformative act — crossing subjects, media, languages, physical walls, restrictions, and so on. Crossing is not merely a movement but a rebellion, an active, dynamic force that traverses media and unsettles the familiar. In this space, objects and creators collide, occupying and reshaping one another, shedding fixed identities and embracing moments of chaos and flux. As creators, viewers, and objects cross these trembling grounds, they all become part of a constantly shifting web of relationships, in which they build up their own narrative autonomy and non-merged storylines, while in which nothing stays stable and everything is constantly up for renegotiation. Disorder becomes a generative force, challenging binaries and exposing the fluid dynamics of subjectivity and power.