I Ching Systems and Artworks is a semi-mythical collective operating at the intersection of divination, the wellness industry, and counter-institutional imagination. Formed in 1983 as a nonprofit entity called Gentle Wind Project, the organization only came to the attention of the art world when it was forced for legal reasons to disband and then to reassemble under its current name. Its members do not produce works of art in the conventional sense, but “healing instruments.”
Building on aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, electromagnetism, particle physics, color theory, and homeopathy, these colorful rods, devices, consoles, and cards are designed to repair and realign the body’s electromagnetic field. Aesthetic experience is linked to physical and mental health, the body reconnected to the spirit through the operations of the senses.
Their interventions draw from the I Ching as both oracle and framework—mapping trauma and recovery not as medical events but as energetic configurations within larger entanglements. Advanced technology is here made indistinguishable from magic, and healing presented as a matter of faith as much as science.
