Website, mixed media, workshop and activities
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
“Future Tao: Inner Scripture” supported by Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture at first stages in 2023, National Culture and Arts Foundation in 2024.
"Future Tao: Inner Scripture" is a collaborative endeavor initiated by lololol in 2018, collectively exploring and imagining contemporary somatic techniques and spiritual practices. In 2023, we are relaunching the project, releasing experimental activities, interviews, and exercise guides as we explore new approaches to well-being.
Future Tao is an art project founded in Taipei that focuses on the cultivation of energies, power relations, and attunement methodologies through embodied performance. With an emphasis on unraveling the complex relationship between technological things, nature, and human beings, the project draws from Taoist approaches to good living in order to navigate the mind and body politics that we live in everyday.
The project was first inspired by the distinct city park ecology in Taiwan. Day by day, the park site comes alive at dawn with human bodies positioned between towering fig trees, striving towards ‘union between heaven and man,’ a core principle shared amongst different Taichi and qigong groups. 'Union' more precisely here translates as generating positive resonance, to seek circulation of inner power by active mobilization of flow with one’s environment.
Project Website: https://futuretao.lololol.net/
Still of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy the Artist and MOCA Taipei | Photo: MOCA Taipei / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy the Artist and MOCA Taipei | Photo: MOCA Taipei / ANPIS FOTO