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Social Acupuncture is an artistic practice and method that engages the public sphere to imagine new social orientations. Lending from relation aesthetics, the term was invented by Canadian performance artist, Darren O’Donnell, and is defined as “the opportunity to directly engage with social flows, applying the same principles as real acupuncture, only the terrain is the social body instead of the physical body” in his book “Social Acupuncture: A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia.”

History
In 2003, O’Donnell’s theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, initiated the Social Acupuncture Wing dedicated to projects under the mandate of exploring an aesthetic of civic engagement.