FutureTao — lololol

2017
Live Performance
30mins

A collaboration with Taichi Master Yan Sheng-Yuan.

太極拳，一種看似隱晦卻充滿內在能量的武術，著重於身體、心智、人與天地之間的流動。而「氣」作為一種古老而模糊的感知存在，能將萬物連接在一起，這也許可以與萊布尼茨的物質精神理論聯繫起來，這是一種物質動力，在相互關聯的整體中產生動能、損耗和增益。通過這個實驗，我們希望能找到道家精神修行在當代生活中的新意義。

Taichi, a seemingly passive but internally vigorous form of martial arts that stresses on flow between mind and body, human and universe. Qi, as an ancient yet highly ambiguous energy that connects all things together, can be perhaps linked to Lebniz's theory of a spirit of matter, a kind of material motivation that generates kinetic loss and gain between interconnected parts of the whole. Through this experiment, we hope to find new meanings of Taoist spiritual practices in contemporary life.

Taichi Master Yan Sheng-Yuan, Performance documentation from Future Tao , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Photo Courtesy Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Sheryl Cheung, Performance documentation from Future Tao , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Photo Courtesy Taipei Fine Arts Museum

lololol, Performance documentation from Future Tao , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Photo Courtesy Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Taichi Master Yan Sheng-Yuan, Performance documentation from Future Tao , Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Photo Courtesy Taipei Fine Arts Museum