Total Body Workout

‘Total Body Workout’ leads you through a ‘total body’ experience in which history unfolds not in order of time, but in a head-to-toe sequence. It explores how our bodies are influenced by the times we live in. How national agendas and political ideology are connected to the way our bodies communicate. And how our body’s memories become part of the dominant historical stories. Finally, it asks how we can live in a historical, totalised body?

This project looks at nationwide physical exercise routines and mass training performances in Asia, the Eastern Bloc, and the United States. It proposes a different way of moving our bodies. Here and now, we work out the total body.

Project by: Kexin Hao