ARTIST PROFILE

YunTing Tsai

  • China (b. 1978 in Taipei)
  • Currently in Taipei, China.
  • YunTing is interested in making moving images. Her works have been presented in Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria, South Africa, Turkey, India, Russia, Brazil, USA, Australia, China and so on.

Body of Knowledge

  • 2015
  • Video
  • 1 min, 0 sec

  • https://yuntingdancefilm.weebly.com/
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    Body of Knowledge | 2015

In my experience, almost everyone who grows up in Asia, especially in Taiwan, is under academic pressure. There is keen competition surrounding academic performance. We are expected to go to the library, study and research, gather knowledge and obtain higher educational degrees over taking part in regular physical exercise. Body of Knowledge can be seen as mimic ontology for this observation, or, otherwise described, a playful study through its representation in dance of the phenomenon of competitive pursuit of knowledge and its relation to the underlying principles of human experience. The concept of Body of Knowledge draws from the interplay between the sum of immaterial and evolving human knowledge and its physical manifestations that propel human progress. These physical manifestations can be represented by the expressions of the human body. By using the body in this way we counter the utilitarian attainment of knowledge – our purpose is reflective, unnecessary. In this way my film is more than a collection of physical terms and corporal information, or a reading list of flesh and blood. It is a game played from a book within a library.