Total Body Workout
Total Body Workout leads you through a ‘total body’ experience in which history unfolds not in chronological order but in a head-to-toe sequence.
How is our body scripted and shaped by the times it lives in? How are national agendas and political ideologies woven into bodily semiotics? How does one’s body memory become an integral part of hegemonic historical narratives? And how do we inhabit a historical and totalised body?
Based on nationwide physical exercise routines and mass gymnastic performances in Asia, the Eastern Bloc and the United States, Total Body Workout proposes a recomposition of the existing corporal movements and a reconfiguration of the past in the present. Here and now, we work out the total body.
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Kexin HaoDirector
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Kexin HaoWriter
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Kexin HaoProducer
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Kexin HaoKey Cast
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Helena RoigVideographer
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Pedro GosslerVideographer
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Dima IbrahimMusician
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Mijs GoosenMake-up Artist
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Kexin HaoPerformance artists
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Leon Lapa PereiraPerformance artists
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Ella Wang OlssonPerformance artists
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Tom ŠebestíkPerformance artists
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Tingyi JiangPerformance artists
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Project Type:Student, Performance, Interactive Film
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Genres:Aerobics, Performance, Sports
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Runtime:15 minutes 56 seconds
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Completion Date:July 5, 2021
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Production Budget:2,300 EUR
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Country of Origin:Netherlands
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Language:English
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Student Project:Yes - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
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Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art The HagueThe Hague
Netherlands
July 8, 2021
Department Award, Graphic Design B.A -
PIP ExpoThe Hague
Netherlands
September 24, 2021
Kexin is a visual artist and designer born in Beijing and based in the Hague. Her practices is a marriage of graphic design and autonomous projects involving performance and public engaging art. Kexin’s work is a constant swing between intimate close-up on personal stories and zoom-out to collective narratives; between a past of political heaviness and a flashy modernity rendered in humour and sarcasm.