2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga
Coining the title Dirty Yoga for an international biennial of contemporary art is a way of foregrounding some of these inherent discrepancies. By underscoring the latent discord between the body’s living perfection and its ultimate state of demise, Dirty Yoga proposes tossing all of our preconceptions about the subject of mind-body relations overboard. With its echo of the various modernized branches of yoga practice, Dirty Yoga proposes a hypothetical state of heightened spiritual engagement with one’s lower order of impulses and actions. Although according to our latest information, ‘dirty yoga’ does not yet exist as a practice in any of the hundreds (if not thousands) of yoga centers opening up in the world’s major cities, the co-curators of the 2006 Taipei Biennial are convinced that it is only a question of time before it is widely available.
<events> 2006-11-04: Starts 2007-02-25: Ends </events>