DING LING
b.2000
Luoyang,China

DING LING(丁澪) is an independent artist, experimental filmmaker and curator, currently based in London and Shanghai.

Using poetic image, performance, writing, installation, and experimental theatre as the main mediums of expression, DING LING metaphorically transforms the elements of nature into the experience of life, re-examining the dialectical relationship between life and death, and incorporating the emotional projections of consciousness, breakthroughs, elapse, and trembling into the unconventional narratives and a combination of art, philosophy, and literature of film and theatre. Expressing the critical spirit to break through confinement, remeasuring and reshaping the value of the exploration of society and the era.

Influenced by Positive Nihilism and Taoist Philosophy, DING LING's creations come from her observations and reflections in life, rooted in life experiences and cultural backgrounds.

Going inwards is an inner exploration and self-observation; going outwards, after reaching the void, we still have the wide power to question to life.


Void Archive:
Celebration of Insignificance


Education

• BA Visual Communication, East China University of Science and Technology, 2018-2022
• MA Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art, 2022-2023
• MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, 2023-2024

Exhibition and Performance

• Timely Rain and Useless Tree, Tate Modern, London, 2024
• Tracing the Current, New Youth Experimental Art Biennale, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, 2024
  
• ImageMorph Noise, Hanger Gallery, Battersea London, 2024
• Anonymous Letter&Epilogue, Montez Press Radio, London, 2024 
• Timely Rain and Useless Tree, Genesis Cinema, London, 2024
  
• After the Post, Zhijiang Culture Centre, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2024
• Everything Must Go, Cookhouse Gallery, London, 2024

• On this Empty Sun, Performance, Gorvy Theatre, Battersea London, 2024
• 'Do Not' Cross the River, Experimental Cross-media Theatre, COUNTERPOINT, Iklectik London, 2023
• ' Do Not' Cross the River, Environmental Theatre, Anaya Theatre Festival, Regent Canal, Kings Cross London, 2023
• The Fading Spaciousness, Three-channel Film, OXO Bargehouse Gallery London, 2023
• Flow, Performance, Labyrinth, Fengxian District, Shanghai, 2023
• The Fading Spaciousness, Poetic Process Show, RCA White City London, 2023
• BLUE UP Ocean Experimental Exhibition, World Cities Day, Pudong District, Shanghai, 2021
• ETORA Universe, East China University of Science and Technology Visual Communication Design Online Exhibition, 2022

Curating

• Time Bifurcates Forever and Leads to Countless Futures, Huzhou, Zhejiang, 2024
• The Fading Spaciousness, OXO Bargehouse Gallery London, 2023

Working Experience

• Academic Director, Royal College of Art-Chinese Student and Scholar Association, London, 2023
• NOWNESS CHINA Modern Media, Designer (Intern), Shanghai, 2022
• FIRST International Film Festival, Design/Photography Volunteer, Beijing/Xining, 2021
• ICY Global Designer Platform, Assistant Producer, Shanghai, 2020
• Creative Studio Manager, Head of Film Directing Society, Head of Media Centre, East China University of Science and Technology, 2019

Selected Awards

• A’ Design Award, Italy, 2022