Zhuo Mengting ('Mengting Zhuo' in western common usage) 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.
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.
In 2021, she will undertake a residency at Berliner Ringtheater (Germany) and present a new participatory performance in the summer.
As a director and a performer, she has made work for theatres, galleries and other spaces, including streets, a bar, a karaoke, and a residential flat.
A member of the Asia-Art-Activism, a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational network of artists, curators and academics investigating ‘Asia’, ‘art’ and ‘activism’ in the UK.
In addition to making performances, she is also a videographer and a translator.
Producer of 小明拆台 Ming Strike, a Chinese podcast show about performing arts.
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.
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.
In 2021, she will undertake a residency at Berliner Ringtheater (Germany) and present a new participatory performance in the summer.
As a director and a performer, she has made work for theatres, galleries and other spaces, including streets, a bar, a karaoke, and a residential flat.
A member of the Asia-Art-Activism, a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational network of artists, curators and academics investigating ‘Asia’, ‘art’ and ‘activism’ in the UK.
In addition to making performances, she is also a videographer and a translator.
Producer of 小明拆台 Ming Strike, a Chinese podcast show about performing arts.
Selected works
1000 Ears [2020-ongoing] (Till We Meet Again IRL @ Asia-Art-Activism)
Six Crosses [2019]
Lucky Ping-Pong Dragon Karaoke [2018-19] (Migration Matters Festival commission; Chinese Arts Now Festival; LEAD International Performance Art Festival)
TOGETHER [2017-2019] (Sprint Festival; Prague Quadrennial)
Before the Wall [2016-17] (Migration Matters Festival commission)
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep and Their Elopement (Leave the show now if you want to) [2016] (China Shanghai International Arts Festival commission; Beijing One Festival)
The Site Formerly Known as Para-site [2016]
Local Time [2016]
Thesaurus [2015 - ongoing] (Celeste Prize finalist exhibition; Raven row; Arnolfini)
You cannot, for instance, go into an unknown house and start shooting a rehearsed scene [2015]
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Six Crosses [2019]
Lucky Ping-Pong Dragon Karaoke [2018-19] (Migration Matters Festival commission; Chinese Arts Now Festival; LEAD International Performance Art Festival)
TOGETHER [2017-2019] (Sprint Festival; Prague Quadrennial)
Before the Wall [2016-17] (Migration Matters Festival commission)
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep and Their Elopement (Leave the show now if you want to) [2016] (China Shanghai International Arts Festival commission; Beijing One Festival)
The Site Formerly Known as Para-site [2016]
Local Time [2016]
Thesaurus [2015 - ongoing] (Celeste Prize finalist exhibition; Raven row; Arnolfini)
You cannot, for instance, go into an unknown house and start shooting a rehearsed scene [2015]
download a complete artist CV