Reimagining-Enacting Walking as a Daoist Tianrenheyi Movement and in Dialogue With More-Than-Human WalkingLab Scholarship

• In Event: Posthumanism, Feminism, Critical Theory

Abstract

This paper explores the possibilities of reimagining and enacting walking as a Daoist tianrenheyi movement, as a research-creation project, in dialogue with the more-than-human WalkingLab scholarship for frictional informing. As a research-creation project, it entails a theory-praxis assemblage. Theoretically, it thinks-with the ancient Chinese ethico-onto-epistemes, say, correlative qi cosmology and Daoist movement, along with the four more-than-human walking themes, i.e., land and geo, affect, transmaterial, and movement. Practically, it explores how I can enact-create an experimental intersection of more-than-human walking-with and a Daoist tianrenheyi movement beyond the neoliberal disordering of human-centered walking into an external natural environment. In so doing, it enriches the rising WalkingLab and other posthuman walking scholarship, further imploding human-centrism and human-non-human disordering.

Author

• Weili Zhao, Hangzhou Normal University