Future Tao: The Great Shift
未來道：乾坤大挪移
The Great Shift2021
VR 360 with sound, digital print
Dimensions variable
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The Great Shift, Script
2022
Text
148x210mm
RGB, Raining
2022
Looped video
1920x1036 pixel
PressureField
2022
UV print on wood panel, hand-carved
90x45cm
FeintButterfly
2022
Digital video, loop, sound installation (mixer, repurposed speaker, cables)
Dimensions variable
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The Great Shift Workshop
2022
Workshop activities
Dimensions variable
This work is supported by Nusantara Archive, Ministry of Culture Taiwan at different stages from 2021 to 2022
《未來道：乾坤大挪移》
是一個新武術敘事的網路現場，源自在新冠狀病毒疫情期間的身體、權力和新技術之間，開啟大轉換（The Great Shift）的變動關係。
lololol 延續2017年所發展的 「未來道」（Future Tao）計畫，重新詮釋當代語境裡的道家科技論以及身心技術。
此計畫以探索印尼電影導演迪亞古蘇馬（D. Djajakusuma, 1918-1987）於1958年所創作的黑白電影《火鞭》（Tjambuk Api）為起點，回應電影中的技術物的隱喻，以及地方智慧傳統儀式的新時代寓意和想像。
Future Tao: The Great Shift is a new virtual martial arts narrative that responds to the changing relationship of “the Great Shift” between the body, power and new technology during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. It continues the project Future Tao launched by art collective lololol in 2017 and re-imagines the Taoist mind and body techniques through contemporary context.
The project takes inspiration from Indonesian Director D. Djajakusuma's 1958 film "Fire Whip" as a creative starting point to explore the periodic meaning of technological objects/users/local knowledge in the Malay archipelago culture.
The Great Shift, Script PDF
Interviews https://lololol.net/interviews_Tgs
Artist Talk https://www.youtube.com/live/CeVgIgUyDSM?feature=share (begins at 43:55)
Reasach Article http://www.heath.tw/nml-article/future-tao-the-great-shift/?lang=en
此計畫以探索印尼電影導演迪亞古蘇馬（D. Djajakusuma, 1918-1987）於1958年所創作的黑白電影《火鞭》（Tjambuk Api）為起點，回應電影中的技術物的隱喻，以及地方智慧傳統儀式的新時代寓意和想像。
Future Tao: The Great Shift is a new virtual martial arts narrative that responds to the changing relationship of “the Great Shift” between the body, power and new technology during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. It continues the project Future Tao launched by art collective lololol in 2017 and re-imagines the Taoist mind and body techniques through contemporary context.
The project takes inspiration from Indonesian Director D. Djajakusuma's 1958 film "Fire Whip" as a creative starting point to explore the periodic meaning of technological objects/users/local knowledge in the Malay archipelago culture.
The Great Shift, Script PDF
Interviews https://lololol.net/interviews_Tgs
Artist Talk https://www.youtube.com/live/CeVgIgUyDSM?feature=share (begins at 43:55)
Reasach Article http://www.heath.tw/nml-article/future-tao-the-great-shift/?lang=en
Documentation of Future Tao: The Great Shift: Workshop, 2022.
Photo Courtesy Vernacular Institute and Moss Piglets.