Projects
Performance · Social Sculpture · Public
She Nian Fo
Social sculpture project rooted in Buddhist practice at Pa Pae meditation centre, between Chiang Mai and Pai.
Tea Dana
A sustained performance practice with tea as the medium, moving between Lashihai in Lijiang and Chiang Mai in Thailand.
OUR CHILDREN
Public welfare art project focused on COVID-19 orphans in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
My Flesh
Role performance art project built around two mirror characters: Meng Chunsheng and Chun Mengsheng — names that are exact reversals of each other.
Five Hundred Arhats
A continuing large-scale project combining painting, sculpture, and performance — shaping portraits of contemporary all living beings.
Searching for a Soulmate
A performance art project and long-form dialogue with Bao Mei (包梅) — 《寻找灵魂伴侣 / 寻找灵感伴侣》 (Searching for a Soulmate / Searching for a Creative Partner).
My Second Face
A series of performance and mask works exploring the second face — the face beneath the face.
ChuangTzu → Zhuangzi Project
Large-scale rural public art project in Bajie, Anning, Yunnan.
Jingdezhen Five-Year Retreat
A planned three-year retreat that extended to five.
Landscape Dream (Shanshui Meng)
Long-running project taking landscape (山水) as its motif.
Ten Years of Silence
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.
Life as Game
A lifelong art project incorporating the whole of existence into art creation.
Give Myself Away for a Year
One full year: no pay, no art-world activity.
Genealogy
In official collaboration with the New Zealand Government.
Farmer Station
Rural experimental art project proposing the concept of an Experimental Rural Bauhaus.
An Illusory Character Made in China
Solo exhibition during the Rijksakademie residency.
Himalaya
In official collaboration with the French Government.
20 Days Project
Cross-border public experimental art plan.
Lijiang Studio
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.
Jiang Hu
A contemporary art movement Mu both launched and stopped.
Killing
Experimental short film selected for the Asian Experimental Art Film Festival and toured Norway and multiple Asian countries.
Identity
Public art intervention at the S Ar era public art space in Oslo during Mu's second year at the Norwegian Royal Academy of Fine Arts.