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MY TRIBUTE TO QIGONG:

 

LEINWANDELN ALS LEBENSWANDEL

 

WALKING ON CANVAS AS LIFE TURNS ON

 

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My encounter with Taiji and Qigong began about two and a half decades ago in Japan.

 

But it was in China when I started training at the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute .

 

My teachers there introduced me to a new world of body and mind awareness and to a path of self-cultivation.

 

Back to Europe, I decided to continue my training on my own.

 

At the same time, I kept in touch with the institute's Qidao school community in Shanghai.

 

Then, I started to combine Qigong with visual art and chose for that purpose a special form:

 

The Liu He Gong form (六合 功) or Qigong of the six directions enables me 

 

to explore movement and space in the four cardinal directions as well as up and down.

For my final project at the Kunstkolleg Freiburg  I decided to deepen this form even further,
 
converting these 3D movements into a 2D experience, so I painted my gestures along the canvas.
 
That's why I started with the German words "Leinwand" and "Wandeln"  played,
 
to form "linen walking" as a life change "life walk".

That is, without my encounter with Qigong and my occupation with the visual arts

my life would not have taken this turn.

"Every step, every decision we make has an impact.

Every movement and every thought finds expression in the material world."

This approx. 280 cm x  550  cm installation resembles a giant calligraphy scroll,

written at a certain point in life.

In the biography of each person there are always ups, downs, turns

as well as visible, invisible, known and unknown places.

During the exhibition, the screen is illuminated with a special light that reveals secret places. 

The audience is invited to discover these places (episodes of life) that are not visible at first glance 

and maybe too  to write her own episode about it



"THE MAKING OF"

In the following video documentation (approx. 2 minutes each) I invite you to take a look at "the making of" my project.
Dive into the present and walk with me!

  Part I: Click here .
For a qigong  Intensive program my way...
There is an intermediate station here Part II .
in the  Part III  it will be neatly painted. Welcome to Qigong Painting! You can experiment.
In part IV  Attacks the spirit of the mop brush!
Part V: We are nearing the end...  On 360 ° "canvases"  weather   by stroking the canvas with the brushes. 
The screen is mounted on the Tatort VHS studio .
Bonus : Summer offers balmy nights. at  full moon  is practiced in the forest...

A 10_MINUTE SUMMARY ! : Teaser Series


Panoramic picture of the installation - VHS Freiburg

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