2000 — Present
Projects
Experimental film, performance, public art, social practice, and international collaboration projects.
Full CV →She Nian Fo
《舍念佛》 · Pa Pae Meditation Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Social sculpture project rooted in Buddhist practice at Pa Pae meditation centre, Chiang Mai. A 44-page documentation of deep retreat, presence, and the practice of letting go — extending the international fieldwork of the OUR CHILDREN phase into a structured contemplative work.
My Flesh
《俺的肉》 · Ongoing
Role performance art project built around two mirror characters: Meng Chunsheng and Chun Mengsheng — names that are exact reversals of each other. Meng Chunsheng carries the secular self: identity, responsibility, social rules. Chun Mengsheng carries the spiritual self: desire, dreams, unfiltered life. Through live performance, text, and social interaction, the two enact the contradictions inside a single person.
OUR CHILDREN
《我们的孩子》 · Chiang Mai, Thailand
Public welfare art project focused on COVID-19 orphans in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Art assistance, psychological companionship, and free teaching — continuing Joseph Beuys' social sculpture concept through anthroposophy and the threefold social order. Conducted under the identity Hei Qiu'en.
Five Hundred Arhats
《五百罗汉》 · Global — online premiere
A continuing large-scale project combining painting, sculpture, and performance — shaping portraits of contemporary all living beings. Interprets the integration of Buddhist spiritual practice and secular life. Global online premiere 2022, drawing audiences across continents. Includes the Declaration of Spiritual Soulmate and the Five Hundred Arhats Online broadcast series.
ChuangTzu Project
桩子计划 · Bajie, Anning, Yunnan, China
Large-scale rural public art project in Bajie, Anning, Yunnan. Built a rural art community, ChuangTzu Academy, and pastoral complex integrating art education, ecological agriculture, and cross-cultural exchange. Core principle: Serving the People. Covered by Chinese media including 中国文旅头条, 云南网, and 春城晚报.
Ten Years of Silence
十年静默 · Myanmar, China, Thailand, Hungary
A large-scale life performance work completed through ten years of deliberate public silence: no publications, no gallery exhibitions, no commercial or institutional art activity in the name of art. Within the silence: became a monk in Myanmar (2013); on-site works collected at MEDIAWAVE Festival, Hungary (2013); created Bridge at COART Asia Youth Art Festival, Lijiang (2014); completed three years of private seclusion (2017–2019). Completed 2022.
Life as Game
《游戏人间》 · Ongoing — worldwide
A lifelong art project incorporating the whole of existence into art creation. Daily behavior, spiritual practice, and social engagement as creative medium. The core proposition: Life is Art. All subsequent projects exist within this frame.
Give Myself Away for a Year
《将自己布施出去一年》 · Yunnan, China
One full year: no pay, no art-world activity. Social services, folk labor, public welfare. The body as the only medium. A direct test of whether art could be lived rather than made — and a dismantling of every separation between spiritual practice and secular life.
Genealogy
《家谱》 · New Zealand & China
In official collaboration with the New Zealand Government. Oral history, image installation, and cross-cultural research connecting Eastern and Western family cultures — exploring how blood, identity, and belonging are expressed across national and cultural borders.
Official collaboration with the New Zealand Government
Farmer Station
《农民站台》 · Rural Yunnan, China
Rural experimental art project proposing the concept of an Experimental Rural Bauhaus. Rooted in Yunnan villages, transforming rural spaces with art, building a community art education system. The project prompted his adoption of the art name Farmer Mu — a deliberate erasure of the elite-art label.
An Illusory Character Made in China
《一个制造于中国的虚幻人物》 · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo exhibition during the Rijksakademie residency. Conceptual installations and performance documents reflecting on identity construction and the alienation of cultural symbols — the experience of being a Chinese artist making work in Europe.
Himalaya
《喜马拉雅山》 · Multiple locations, France
In official collaboration with the French Government. Cross-regional installations and film exploring the symbiotic relationship between landscape, culture, and humanity across the Himalayan region. Exhibited across multiple locations in France.
Official collaboration with the French Government
Jiang Hu
《江湖》 · Kunming & Lijiang, Yunnan, China
Large-scale public art project intervening in urban and rural spaces across Kunming and Lijiang. One of the early representative works of socially engaged public art in China. Formally exhibited in Kunming and Lijiang in 2005.
Lijiang Studio
丽江工作室 · Lijiang, Yunnan, China
Co-founded with American curator Jay Brown — one of Yunnan's first non-profit international artist residency platforms, connecting Yunnan and Tibet with Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The 2004 catalogue Lijiang China Studio/Residence was permanently collected by IberLibro and international art platforms. Included in the Rijksakademie's case studies of Chinese contemporary public art.
Co-founded with Jay Brown (American curator)
20 Days
《二十天》 · Kunming, China — Oslo, Norway — Binic, France
20 days of uninterrupted on-site creation at Kunming Creative Warehouse, built around the concept of 20 Days, 20 Countries. Each day abstractly translated a different country's cultural core through body and local materials — without flags or landmarks, without preset outcomes. Later toured Oslo (2004) and Binic, France (2005).
Killing
《杀》 · Oslo, Norway — Asia Tour
Experimental short film selected for the Asian Experimental Art Film Festival and toured Norway and multiple Asian countries. The work focuses on the essence of life and the nature of violence — the first major completed work after graduating from the Norwegian Royal Academy of Fine Arts.