Nen

 

A speculative somatic-movement practice based on the practice of Nen: a technique that allows a living being to use and manipulate their own life energy (known as aura), allowing them to can craft a great variety of parapsychological abilities. Nen is an artificial practice which serves as the core power system of the anime Hunter X Hunter.

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This practice is part of what I call "Ninjutsu Exercises": Forms-of-practice drawing on power systems and training sequences from, primarily Shonen, anime and manga. They are meant to challenge the practitioners' attention and capacities with the aim of rigorously stimulating embodied technique, potentially foregrounding, even yielding, new forms performance technique. Otherwise, to explore the tension between the speculative and material, the fantastic and real.

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