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Volume 17, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 1477-965X
  • E-ISSN: 1758-9533

Abstract

Abstract

Drawing upon my expertise as an artist and clinical acupuncturist with training in biomedicine, my artistic research adapts Chinese medicine practice into a strategic tool to investigate new synergies between art, medicine, technology, East, West, modernity and pre-modernity. In my performances, I use Chinese pulse diagnosis and acupuncture point location as transdisciplinary artistic technologies ( / 器) that are capable of measuring and responding to quantum entanglements between individuals and their social, natural and cosmic milieus – or what can be referred to as (道). This is achieved by combining the principles of CM with digital (audio software and physical computing) and 'moist' media (the body).

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