performance maker / co-founder of _ao_ao_ing ensemble 老妖精 🔗
/current residence
Los Angeles (2024-today)
Shanghai (2018-2024)/language
Mandarin, English
/gender
F
/allergy
cats + bad food
/performance
performance as activation,cultivation, disruption;
as storytelling, emoting, summoning a soft riot
— where raw connection cuts through perfect skin...
2025.1
Los Angeles
Fresh off the Wok 新鲜出锅 (Creator, chef)
A dinner performance with revived historical Chinese-American recipes by Joyce Chen
Private living room
2024.9
Shanghai Dance Me! China 跨时代舞池 (Co-creator, performer)
A dance battle with moms’ generation. Original concept by SheShePop
staged at Shanghai International Dance Centre
shared at HAU Berlin
2024.6
WenzhouThe Travels of FAN 游番记, multimedia installation (Co-creator)
Hong Museum
2024.2-5
QingyuanButtiful Bad Bebes 美丽坏宝贝 (Co-creator)
A bombastic performance of desire on the streets of small town.
Art Museum of Pond Loach, Qingyuan
2024.6-8
HangzhouViolent Westlake 暴力西湖 (Co-creator, boardgame designer)
A curatorial project into the ecosystem of 14 local art collectives with performative actionsIV edition of "Is 'Shanshui' Useful Today?"
initiated by Positive Art Research Association
2023.6-2024.1
ShanghaiSongs of the Feetless Fish 没有脚的鱼在河口停了一会
(Co-creator)
A multi-layered project of Walking Workshops, Performance, and Publishing. Through the water passages of Shanghai, we collectivley process the trauma from the pandemic.supported by Goethe Institut Urban Walks , RockBund Art Museum
2022.11-12
Hangzhou
MMbD/Mission Must be Done 使命必达
(Co-creator, Performer, WebAPP designer)
A mixed-media city-wide Alternate Reality Game
Part of CITY RUN PROJECT
China Academy of Art
2022.9-11
Shanghai
Linzi’s Dance 林子舞会 (Initiator & Co-creator & Programmer)
A mixed-media interactive installation and a series of happenings
* Commissioned by 2022 RAM HIGHLIGHT
RockBund Art Museum (RAM)
2022.2-9
Kunshan
Beauty Salon 妖精客厅 (Creator, WebAPP designer)
A public intervention project
Duke Kunshan University
2022.5
Online
Dynamic Zero 动态清零 (Creator, WebAPP designer)
Web experience.
2022.3
Cryptovoxels
WeaverGirl Project: Master, Please Weave Your Maid
织女计划：主人，请编织你的女仆
(Initiator & Co-creator & Programmer)
Online performance, chatbot
Cloud & Cloud Project by Raiden INST
2021.12
Shanghai Residence of the Consul-General of France
WeaverGirl Project: CGW001 (Consul-General’s Wife)
织女计划：总领事夫人
(Initiator & Co-creator & Performer & Programmer)
A series of happenings with mixed-media installation;
Commissioned by Project Terrace
2020.12
The Mirror (Creator)
Interactive installation
TX Huaihai, Shanghai
2021.10
a scene 图景 (Multimedia designer)
Contemporary dance
* First Prize Winner of 2021 New Bund Youth Art Award
2021.9
Shanghai, Guangzhou
Rest In Peace, Papa 入土为安
(Performer, Multimedia Designer, Co-creator)
Documentary Theatre about the passing of one’s grandfather
SDAC-Lab (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre)
2020.8-10
Shanghai
Hi! Hi! Hi! 嗨！嗨！嗨！(Co-creator & Performer)
Participatory performance
Shanghai Power Station of Art
2020.12
Shanghai
the Greatest Event in a Doll’s Life / sheng女之家
(Co-creator & Performer)
A contemporary theatre performance on the institution of marriage
* Winner of 2019 Ibsen Scholarship
Ming Contemporary Art
Muesuem
2018.12, 2019.3 &12
Shanghai & Hangzhou
Tourist Like Us, a Performance Series 到此一游
(Ensemble Creator & Performer)
An on-going city audio performance series about migration and diaspora
Part of Shanghai Biennale City Project “Your Place”
2018.12
cybercafe 赛博咖啡 (Ensemble Creator & Performer)
A interactive performance about the duality of our online and offline presence
Extra Time, Shanghai
2018.6, 2018.9
Soup 孕 (Creator & Director)
From images of life science to the female intimate experience of bearing a child
*Specially Invited Performance at 2018 Wuzhen International Theatre Festival
Ming Contemporary Art
Muesuem
Wuzhen Shenjia Theatre
/exhibitions
2025.1
Los Angeles
callooh! callay! (Curator)Solo
4C Gallery, San Gabriel
2024.6
WenzhouEleven Beds 十一种床 (Participating artist)
Hong Museum, Wenzhou
2024.3
Shenzhen
On the Road: Theatre 在路上：剧场 (Participating artist)
Guanshanyue Art Museum
2024.2-5
Qingyuan
Buttiful Bad Bebes 美丽坏宝贝
Solo Exhibition
Art Museum of Pond Loach, Qingyuan
2023.9
Shanghai
WorkUp! (Participating artist)Pudong Workers’ Museum
2022
Shanghai
Decided! <决定>！ (Participating artist)
Archive Exhibition of Project TerracePower Station of Arts
2022
Hangzhou
CLOSE UP: 100 Moments For a Better China
(Participating artist) China Design Museum
2022
Cryptovoxels
Cloud & Cloud: Cryptovoxels Series Exhibition
云与云
(Participating artist, performance)Raiden INST
2021
Shanghai
Soft Machine 柔软机器 (Participating artist)
An exhibition of Pan-Asian Performances
Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM)
2020
Shenzhen
Twenty Years Towards a World Theatre (Participating artist, special performance)
二〇20年：整个世界变成了剧场
Participatory Exhibition with Archived Contemporary Performance
OCAT Shenzhen
2019
Shanghai
12th Shanghai Biennale City Projects Exhibitoin "Our Places" (Participating artist, performance)
上海双年展城市项目“你的地方”Power Station of Arts
/talks + sharings
2025“The _______ Public Space? The Transient, the Private, the Improvised...” (Panel Talk)
reconnect festivalOnline, Tehran
2025“You Can't See What a Fish Sees”
On post-truth theater (Interview)Theater Magazine Nov. 2025
(David Geffen School of Drama at Yale/Yale Repertory Theatre)
2022.7neo-Portal Podcast Special: WeaverGirl ProjectGuangdong Times Museum Media Lab2022.2British Council CHINA NOW DIALOGUES: Emerging Talents - Stories from the StageZoom2021Theatre as an InterventionMing Strike Podcast2021.12"Terrace Chat" Term VIII: Group as MethodTerrace Project
/training
2020.1
Losari, West JavaTari Topeng Mask Dance Training
with master Mimi Kartini
2019.1
Jogja, Central Java
Mask Making Wayang Topeng (traditional Javanese mask dance)
with master Popo Wiguno
2018.1
Holstebro, Denmark
Odin Teatrot
Intense Physical Training: Feats of Performing
2015.8
Rio de Janeiro
Centro di Teatro do Oprimido
Theatre of the Oppressed Marathon Program
2016.9 ~ 2018.1
London
East 15 Acting School, London
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing (with Merit)
2012.9 ~ 2016.7
Los Angeles
U.C.L.A.
Computational Mathematics (the Deans’ List)
+ Theatre
/ honors & awards
2022
Nominated for Sanya Youth Art Award for WeaverGirl Project and _ao_ao_ing ensemble
2019
Winner of the Ibsen Scholarship (First Chinese recipient)
2021
First Prize Winner of New Bund Youth Art Award for collaborative work, a scene
2022
Winner of UK-China Collaboration Funding
/ teaching
2022
birdie youth theatre camp (Devising & Directing)
2020
“Emotion and Body” Series Workshop
2020
Nanjing University, Department of Art (Collaborative Creation)
2019-2024Freelance performance-making mentor & instructor