Energyscapes: Interconnecting body, clinic, qi and dao

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 (qi / ) 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 dao (). This is achieved by combining the principles of CM with digital (audio software and physical computing) and 'moist' media (the body).