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Life on the RUN! RUN! RUN! Brick Lane Gallery premiere 2015 June 20. Commissioned by Singapore Tourism Board/EXPARTE
SINGA
MOVEMENT=LIFE
500BCE
China
RUNNING VS
OTHER LOCOMOTION
run: since
2009, UK
running vs
other forms
of body protest
whole world
in your hands
RUN
site/sight of protest
for life
heady mix
head in the clouds
WORLDWIDE
since 1960's
2009
http://www.everythingaboutrunning.asics.eu/eu_eu/introduction/
Blast Theory. 2001. Can You See Me Now?
Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba. 2009. Breathing Is Free.
Martin Creed. 2008. No. 850.
Daoist wanderers: home-brewed wine
Alan Sillitoe. 1959. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Alan Turing. Conceptualised the computer while running
Lola and other runners: runner's high
Tarahumara runners: home-brewed corn beer
forerunner
'It's a Nomad,
Nomad World'
The
human body is a beautifully- tuned running machine tailor-made for sustained running.
Bramble & Lieberman 2006
Then: Icarus
Anatomy of Restlessness
way; path;
doctrine; discourse
There are 10,000 gates, and that it is up to each of us to find our own.
Daoist scholar
Kristofer Schipper 1994
body as world
world as body
Trust no
words! Find
your own
way!
to: real world
There is more than one way to the top of the mountain, and more than one mountaintop.
Now:
Daoist scholar
Julian F Pas 2006
Bruce Chatwin
eyeline: look at this
forerunner
Daoist
philosopher
Lao Zi
(lit. 'Old Child')
1940 – 1989
'wuwei':
opposition to authority, government coercion, and even to normal
socialisation in values,
via a distinct ambivalence,
indirect, non-argumentative style, and the use of poetry
and parable.
We are soft and nimble when living,
but firm and rigid when dead.
'wuwei':
belly knowledge; intuition;
naturalism;
playful
freedom.
Chad
Hansen
2012
MENT
= LIFE
Play!
Spontaneity!
Festivity!
Cultural tradition of walking
Like a child that has not yet learnt to smile, restless as if I have no home to return to. My mind is that of a fool – ignorant and stupid! Other people are clear and have reason; I alone am mixed-up, foolish and crude.
whole world
under your feet
Johan Huizinga & Henri Lefebvre
pascal
RUN
dominant cultural movement: walking
Kraftwerk
DROWNING: 2007 Now(here)
the runner
as a mobile
digital device
DIGITAL
NOMAD
roaming since 2005
X
-
Step into my life
X
1995-2009
feet on the ground
Singapore London Chicago Tokyo
2016-2018
MOVEMENT=LIFE
THIS
Bodies On the
HERE
1623 – 1662 France
RUN! RUN! RUN!
Blaise Pascal
forerunner
Bujumbura, Palestine, N+S Korea
PORE
life on the
RUN! RUN! RUN!
critical +
creative 'app'
political/digital/existential exile