collaborative work with Derrick Wang
家作坊 HomeShop, Beijing China
June 21-23 2013

The “non-visible” project has evolved from a series of video interviews with various practitioners in Europe and China with experiences or familiarity working with non-visible energy, or ‘qi’. Interviewees have included dancers, cognitive scientists, Feng Shui and I Ching masters, psychics, traditional medicine doctors and physicists.

How can the non-visible be made visible and/or comprehensible? We would suggest that we are constantly swinging between the two poles of subjective and objective reality. Through the process of our interviews, we have attempted to find points of connection between the various practices we have encountered, while acknowledging our own groundlessness in terms of having to constantly transform our perceptions and expectations of the people we have met.

In a film installation and series of events organized during the June solstice and under the full moon (June 21-23), we hope that some of the hidden layers contained in our interactions and recordings will become visible to or felt by those who participate, and that a new understanding of the non-visible may emerge.

day #1
Friday June 21
18:00-20:00 reading and discussion with the Happy Friends Reading Group
20:00-22:00 film installation

day #2
Saturday June 22
18:00-20:00 book reading and discussion with 杜顺杰 Du Shun Gie Laoshi (Feng Shui), 张力壬 Zhang Li Rem Laoshi (Yijing) and other guests
20:00-22:00 film installation

day #3
Sunday June 23
19:00 dinner and open discussion (cost 88RMB, reservation required)
20:00-22:00 film installation

In collaboration with HomeShop/Emi Uemura, Michael Eddy, Qu Yizhen, Tan Zhengjie, Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga
Photo by Hartmut Walter and Derrick Wang
Supported by ifa – Institut für Auslandbeziehungen e.V.

See also: www.homeshopbeijing.org/blog/?p=5157