Cenote Cosmos 沉洞泉 is......?
Cenote Cosmos/Chén Dòng Quán (originally Cenote Workshop) is an art research and practice project that creates a fictional cosmology (another world) paralleling with our contemporary. We explore possibilities for Spiritual Activism with socially engaged workshop, theater, performance, moving images, writing, self-publishing and curatorial practice within and beyond the two worlds.
呼吸的洞、发光的泉；沉洞泉是合作共创的艺术实践与研究项目，同时向内洞察无我的本质，与向外探索集体结构的觉知。我们流动于梦境、公共空间、艺术场所、社群、街道、湖泊、雨林、与宇宙…
Co-founders and organizers: Jia and Mei
创始成员：胖丁、梅子
呼吸的洞、发光的泉；沉洞泉是合作共创的艺术实践与研究项目，同时向内洞察无我的本质，与向外探索集体结构的觉知。我们流动于梦境、公共空间、艺术场所、社群、街道、湖泊、雨林、与宇宙…
Co-founders and organizers: Jia and Mei
创始成员：胖丁、梅子
A cave that breathes / a spring that glows... inward into the nature of “no-self”,and outward into the awareness of collective structures.
沉洞泉波(Cenote Wave)是人脑和CDQYZ-222黑洞的量子场共振构成的一个频率在极的谐振腔，其共振频率的周长刚好相当于银河系半径。
我们试图共振到沉洞泉波的频率，探索sacred activism （灵性行动主义）在当下社会的实践，具体呈现为艺术研究、写作、影像创作、工作坊、共学小组等。
在三位一体的沉洞泉宇宙观中，个体内部的洞察与修行——社会结构问题的行动与实践—— 集体的转变与疗愈，与天地自然合一而共生。
据说：沉洞泉波可以通向古老未来的沉洞泉宇宙（Cenote Cosmos)，欢迎入洞......
我们试图共振到沉洞泉波的频率，探索sacred activism （灵性行动主义）在当下社会的实践，具体呈现为艺术研究、写作、影像创作、工作坊、共学小组等。
在三位一体的沉洞泉宇宙观中，个体内部的洞察与修行——社会结构问题的行动与实践—— 集体的转变与疗愈，与天地自然合一而共生。
据说：沉洞泉波可以通向古老未来的沉洞泉宇宙（Cenote Cosmos)，欢迎入洞......
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Workshops Selected （2021-2023）
部分工作坊
Soft but Fearless
Workshop at 前台(one step forward), Guangzhou, China, 2023
“Softness” seems to be a pejorative term in a society that prizes power, but it can be a fearless and unassuming strength. When we channel the “soft” power of water into our bodies, the direction of the force is full of possibilities for transformation.
In this workshop, we invite you to explore the embodied and creative expression of “softness and fearlessness” through progressive meditation, games, physical exercises, and mini-theater, and together we will see each other in the present moment and share softness and vulnerability
在当今依旧有着随处可见的暴力和压迫的世界中，人们无意识地延续着社会性的创伤，应激地陷入父权逻辑中的权力对抗。这个集体意识也隐藏在我们每一段个人关系里。如何保持自我与他人的平衡？如何在临在的状态中表达自己需求？如何允许矛盾存在从而接纳与化解？如何在爱中求真？“柔弱”在崇尚权力的社会中似乎是一个贬义词，但它可以是一种无畏而不卑不亢的力量。当我们去引导水一般“柔弱”的力量进入我们的身体时，力的方向便充满了转化的可能。
这一期「沉洞泉」，我们邀请大家一起，通过递进的冥想、游戏、肢体练习、小剧场…… 探索“柔而无畏”具身化和创造性的表达，一起看见当下的彼此，同柔共弱。
Human-made Heavenly Voice
Workshop at TANK Shanghai 油罐艺术中心， during the exhibition Jia Aili: Harsh, 2022
Beyond the constraints of linear, patriarchal logic lies a history written in intuition and ancestral memory, a world where the body itself is the primary site of creation.
They are oral traditions that resulted from the collision and fusion of people, nature, and time. It is a collective, spontaneous, and present experience, which, through the recreation of people, spreads indefinitely until the moment of its loss. They are “living things” often connected to metaphysical imaginings and reflections, constantly changing before being interpreted by modern reason.
Invited by the TANK Shanghai, this episode of Cenote Workshop recruits a diverse group of people to explore the collective experience of the birth of oracles from three perspectives: language, music and performance, replacing the rigid progression of 'history' with a cyclical, intuitive truth where the body functions as an ancestral archive.
Rituals of the Rituals
Performance and workshop at Himalaya Museum/ Yuz Museum, Shanghai, under the group show: Rituals in Rituals of the future: Cowbell, 2021
This collective ritual/performance investigates how power becomes internalized in the body and circulates through attention, repetition, and response. After 2 hours of meditation and somatic preparation, two participants sit face to face, repeating a simple observation without defense or interpretation. As words lose their power to define, a raw vulnerability emerges. The dialogue evolves from speech into a purely embodied language to standing, running, dancing, crying, screaming, playing...By stripping away the logic of conversation, the body is freed to act spontaneously.
Speech gradually dissolves into embodied action.
In the final stage, participants bring this energy to the audience, initiating irrational and dysfunctional conversations with random viewers. This encounter challenges the traditional power of the gaze, turning a passive observation into an immediate, emotional exchange. Here, the boundaries between performer and witness vanish, replaced by a shared, visceral reality.
Telling my truth
Cenote Workshop at WuHan Xinrunkang Psychiatric Rehab center，2022
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan. The city was the location of the first lockdown of the pandemic. Now, 2 years after the outbreak, Cenote Workshop is invited to a psychiatric rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Wuhan to do a series of workshops. Ever since the pandemic, there’s been an increasing need for psychiatric rehabilitation in the city. This center primarily serves individuals from low-income and unhoused backgrounds, many of whom live with diagnoses such as schizophrenia.
During our stay, we gradually built relationships with the residents through shared activities and time spent together. We also connected with Wuhan-based artists, who have since adapted and continued the workshops in ways that respond to their own context.
In this relational space, participants and facilitators coexisted through a fluid exchange of presence, affect, and intuition. Communication unfolded across gestures, rhythms, and imagination, at times moving beyond conventional language. What emerged was a subtle attunement to one another—an ecology of connection that was temporary and situated, yet meaningful in how it opened space for different ways of sensing and relating.
A Psychic Game of Gift Exchange
2021
The workshop explores extrasensory perception as a way of sensing memory, relation, and care beyond language.
The workshop begins with a guided Third Eye meditation, opening participants’ intuition. Then, we begin a simple game of clairvoyance, where we hold up the back of a tarot card in front of each participant and ask them to trust their intuition and ‘read’ the front of the card. Some are able to read the cards very accurately. Then, all participants stand in a circle and start a ‘massage train’, followed by a poetic self-introduction game, called “if you are, then I am…”
The participants then take out the objects they have prepared beforehand, which carry meaningful memories for them. The objects are placed secretly in a separate room. By randomized order, each participant goes into the room to choose one object that they feel connected with, without knowing whose it is. After everyone has chosen their object, we ask participants to use their senses and intuition to touch, feel, listen, watch, and smell the object. In a 5-minute automatic writing session, participants jot down all the information that the objects have conveyed. Then, participants try to reconstruct the memory concealed in this object with a 10-minute improvised performance. The original owners then reveal themselves, often triggering unexpected emotional resonances to the unexpected forms of thier memories expressed through others' bodies, forming a shared field of presence where connection and healing emerge.
You are I, I am You
2021
This workshop explores empathy and the fluid boundaries between self and other through meditation, touch, voice, play, and improvisation. Beginning with practices of mutual care and attunement, participants gradually move toward exercises in finding resonance across difference. In the final performance, You Are I, I Am You, pairs exchange personal stories: one person inhabits, expands, and performs the other’s memory as their own. Through this temporary exchange of perspective, the workshop asks what happens when we listen deeply enough for another person’s experience to enter—and transform—our own.
This workshop explores empathy and the fluid boundaries between self and other through meditation, touch, voice, play, and improvisation. Beginning with practices of mutual care and attunement, participants gradually move toward exercises in finding resonance across difference. In the final performance, You Are I, I Am You, pairs exchange personal stories: one person inhabits, expands, and performs the other’s memory as their own. Through this temporary exchange of perspective, the workshop asks what happens when we listen deeply enough for another person’s experience to enter—and transform—our own.
Forest Tableaux
2021
Set in the forest, this workshop explores embodied ways of sensing, relating, and creating with one another and the natural environment. Through meditation, barefoot walking, touch, non-verbal exercises, and collective performance, participants move from individual awareness toward shared attunement. Improvisational games and image-based prompts invite the group to experiment with intuition, reciprocity, and collective imagination, leading to site-responsive performances created in dialogue with the landscape.
Collaborative Art
沉洞泉制作
“Wu Wei Mudra" is a text and video installation, along with an extended workshop, created by artist duo “Cenote Cosmos”. The fluid, mystical streams of consciousness envelop political, collective, and female traumas. Images, words, and sounds act as three channels, woven together into a trance-like experience, to recollect memories, caress wounds, and awaken inner awareness of healing and interconnectedness.
沿着汤水，乳汁，眼泪，尿液的热气往上爬，会看到一池发着幽光的泉水，融化了所有反义词。玄秘的意象包裹着政治的、集体的、女性的创伤，微妙的更广阔的可能。影像，文字，声音作为三条管道，在晃神的状态中，一瞥沉洞泉宇宙，向内觉察存在于最深处的“无我”，向外用身体、行动在集体的结构中种下觉知的种子。
Cenote Writings
沉洞泉文章
濒死体验之后，我比此前任何一刻都热爱生命
"The Universal Core of Love: My Near-Death Experience"
是修行者，也是愤怒的女性
"A Spiritual Woman, An Angry Woman"
孕育真正超越战争的世界：Tamera和平社区/疗愈生场
"Nurturing a World Beyond War: Tamera Peace Community/Healing Biotope"
在前世催眠里，我看到自己是爸爸的爸爸
"Our Past Lives All In The Present: My Hypnosis Experience"
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