2013: The Daoist Body (Slade Performance Day Conference)
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The whole world under my feet An exploration of the Daoist conception of the body Kai Syng Tan (Practice-related PhD) Slade Performance Day 15 February 2013 <3rdlifekaidie.com>
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The whole world under my feet
An exploration of the Daoist conception of the body
Kai Syng Tan (Practice-related PhD) Slade Performance Day 15 February 2013
<3rdlifekaidie.com>
Daoist body: 3-in-1: body + mind + soul
(Livia Kohn 1993)
Body as world, world as body(Livia Kohn 1993)
From the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Huangdi neijing suwen, circa 475-221BC)
(cited in Kohn 1993)
Body as world
The Xiuzhen tu or Chart for the Cultivation of
Perfection from the early 19th century
(cited in Kohn 1993)
Body as world
World as body
The Neijing Tu or Diagram of Interior Lights,
from the 19th century (cited in Kohn 1993)
Body : world : bodyFate in our hand, whole world under our feet
Wuwei: childlike intuition(Lao Zi 600BCE)
Wuwei: childlike intuitionbelly-knowledge; this, here (Kristofer Schipper 1994)
Wuwei: childlike intuitionopposition via poetry & parable (Chad Hansen 2012)
Motion : life(Lao Zi via Kuang-Ming Wu 1996)
video tour 2007 Singapore
Guangzhou Triennale 2008 China
Lecture-performance, Sydney Biennale 2006
Laptop performance, 2002-2005 Japan
Stage performer, Moscow 2008
Permanent video installation, Singapore
Installation, 2007 Singapore
1000-day run
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