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Weekly Initiative News- 09/15/14

 

Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, installation view, 2014. Photo: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of Art in General.

Now open at Art in General is Total Body Conditioning, an exhibition by Mika Tajima. As Art in General describes it, the exhibition is “comprised of three scenes—display, work, and fitness—that invoke technologies developed to control and affect the body. These are techniques that shape bodily experience of time and space, taking the human body as a target of power. The works in the exhibition include hot tub painting objects, a series of abstract woven textile portraits, and transparent paintings set to changing ambient lighting and sound sequences. Each scene in the exhibition traces the management of the body in different spaces and temporal contexts from factory assembly lines to therapeutic “after work” locations.”

http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/576

 

 

Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, installation view, 2014. Photo: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of Art in General.

 

Mika Tajima, Total Body Conditioning, installation view, 2014. Photo: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of Art in General.