Total Body Workout

2021

performanceanimationbookbody-politicspublic-engagement

Total Body Workout leads you through a ‘total body’ experience in which history unfolds not in chronological order but in a head-to-toe sequence.

How is our body scripted and shaped by the times it lives in? How are national agendas and political ideologies woven into bodily semiotics? How does one’s body memory become an integral part of hegemonic historical narratives? And how do we inhabit a historical and totalised body?

Based on nationwide physical exercise routines and mass gymnastic performances in Asia, the Eastern Bloc and the United States, Total Body Workout proposes a recomposition of the existing corporal movements and a reconfiguration of the past in the present. Here and now, we work out the total body.

“全身运动”以健身操的模式，带领观众“从头到脚”地解析身体政治，打破线性叙事，将自己的身体作为历史的阅读器，体验一种“被整合”的身体。

我们的身体是如何被时代所塑造的？国家发展议程和政治意识形态是怎样被编织到身体符号中的？个人的身体记忆是否能编写宏大历史叙事？我们是否居住在一个历史性的集体身体之中？

这个作品对中、日、韩、英、美、苏联、和捷克斯洛伐克的广播体操进行了研究。“全身运动”基于固有的体操动作，整合出一套新的体操；用创意性的视觉系统、音乐语言以及现场表演的多媒介传播方式，将历史重组于当下。此时此地，让我们开启全身运动。

work credits:

graduation project tutors: Ruben Pater × Thomas Buxo
Photography & cinematography: Helena Roig × Pedro Gossler
Music: Dima Ibrahim
Make up: Mijs Goosen
Fitness supervisor: Leon Lapa Pereira
Performers: Leon Lapa Pereira × Ella Wang Olsson × Tom Šebestík × Tingyi Jiang × Pelle Schilling
Graduation show exhibition design: Luā Su-íng × Arthur Cordier

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Exhibitions

2023 [NL] Embassy of Inclusive Society, DDW 2023,Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2022 [NL] Turning Towards Fluidity: A Tournament of the Unknown, W139, Amsterdam
2022 [NL] Body Matters, CHAXART Amsterdam
2022 [CN] yà运会, Luxelakes·A4 Art Museum, Chengdu
2021 [CR] In Transmission, STIFF Student International Film Festival, Rijeka