bones tan jones: Oi Gong & Sound Journey | 11 May 2025
In this gathering, bones tan jones explored themes, elements and concepts of the ancient Chinese energy movement practice, Qi Gong.
About the Activation
During this event we explored themes, elements and concepts of Qi Gong. Cultivating the soft strength and playful movements that are at the core of Qi Gong’s health benefits, for longevity and a balanced life. It was accompanied by a live soundscape by bones and various ambient musicians over the months, practitioners were fully immersed in the sonic sounds as they moved intentionally through this energy practice. Moving somatically, bones guided students into a poetic relationship to their bodies and the space and world around them.
Artist Biography
bones tan jones
bones tan jones is a queer heretic whose work traverses materials, disciplines and time lines.
Raised in a church choir in the northwest of the UK, on the borderlands of mythical Wales and enchanted England, Tan Jones’s work has ne'er strayed far from the ecclesiastic rituals of worship, only in tan jones’s world, the church has been burnt, the yew trees thrive in the ashes, and god is trans.
bones tan jones presents their living praxis ‘optimystic dystopia’ as a spiritual practice. an eternal storyteller, alternative realities are explored through alter egos, retellings of ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating; symphonies, operas, psalms, triptychs, sigils, stele, installations, interventions, inter-active workshops.