photography by Joschi Herczeg
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Bio [EN]
Zhuo Mengting ('Mengting Zhuo' in western common format) was born in Guangzhou, China in 1990. She received her MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016 and has been living in London since. Having studied literature and critical theory, and played in indie bands, she holds as much interest in language as in the composition and the unspoken. Live performance is regarded as a ‘total’ medium for her to explore the contingency of meaning, and what agency means. She believes in the possibility of creating a poetic, quiet and intimate experience in a world that is already full of noise. With Thesaurus, which started as a course project during the MA, a piece about chance and the randomness of narrative, she was nominated by Celeste Prize in 2016. In 2017, she was commissioned by Migration Matters Festival to present Before the Wall, a semi-autobiographical exploration about the concept of border. At the same year, she initiated the project TOGETHER under the collective name Factory Irregular: an interactive multi-media performance, where audience is placed in a chaos of discourses and is invited to communicate with performers with mobile software. The piece is selected for The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019. In the historical 2020, during the pandemic and isolation, she initiated 1000 Ears to explore an unusual and non-visual way of audience engagement. The project was awarded an Arts Council England grant in its development phase. This online performance has been presented at Germany and China. In 2021, she presented a new participatory performance installation, If You Would Play Again, as a resident artist at Berliner Ringtheater (Germany). From 2022 onwards she performed various sonic acts with London's grassroot sound art communities, as well as creating site-specific happening scores for locations including Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong), Frieze London, Cafe OTO and MAO Torino (Italy). As a performer and director, she has made encounters with audiences in theatres, galleries and other spaces, including streets, a bar, a karaoke, a residential flat, and online. She is a visiting lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and London College of Communications, UAL. She is the co-founder and host of 小明拆台 Ming Strike, a Chinese podcast show on contemporary performing arts from the perspective of Asian diasporic artists. As a performance curator she has made possible events including 'Para-Phrase' series at Pushkin House, and Ruthin International Arts Festival. [中文 - 精简版] 卓梦婷，跨媒介艺术家，剧场导演、现场艺术策划人。生于广州，自2015年于英国伦敦从事当代表演创作与研究，是艺术小组与播客「小明拆台」创始人，英国皇家中央演讲与戏剧学院及伦敦大学传媒学院的客座讲师。英国伦敦大学金史密斯学院(Goldsmiths College)演出创作硕士毕业。 为社会与自然中不可预测的随机性而吸引，尝试用参与式装置、声音表演、一对一剧场等形式探索人与人之间超越语言的联系。 作品曾在剧院、画廊和其他空间（包括公园、海滩、卡拉 OK 、公寓和网络）与观众邂逅，包括上海PSA、香港大馆当代美术馆（Tai Kwun Contemporary）、意大利东方美术博物馆(Museum of Oriental Art)、伦敦Frieze、曼彻斯特esea当代艺术中心（esea contemporary）、德国曼海姆席勒艺术节（Schillertage）、北京青戏节、伦敦当代华人艺术节（Chinese Arts Now）、柏林环形剧院（Berliner Ringtheater）、布拉格四年展（PQ）、英国移民事宜艺术节（Migration Matters Festival）、上海国际艺术节等。 近期策展实践包括2024露丝国际艺术节（Ruthin International Arts Festival）表演策展人、伦敦普希金之家（Pushkin House）客座表演策展人。 |