3C形意拳：對練
3C Xing Yi Quan: Sparring 2025
Three-channel video installation, stereo sound
Dimensions variable
This work was supported by the CREATORS Creation / Research Support Program of the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) .
3C Xing Yi Quan: Sparring refers to a training method in which humans and technological objects engage in paired routines and coordinated movements based on forms and postures. This work continues the artist’s long-term project 3C Xing Yi Quan, initiated in 2017—an open-source, contemporary internal martial art system. “3C” broadly refers to computers, communication, and consumer electronics. While traditional Xing Yi Quan draws on the behavioral ecology of animals in nature, 3C Xing Yi Quan reflects on the ubiquitous technological devices that have come to define a new kind of natural environment in everyday life. Through physical gestures and embodied practice, the project explores ways of learning coexistence and reshaping our experiential understanding and relationship with technological objects.
Installation view of 3C Xing Yi Quan: Sparring, 2025. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Hong-Gah Museum / Wen-Ling Lin
Still of 3C Xing Yi Quan: Sparring, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist.