INFORMATION
Name: Burong Zeng (曾不容)
E-mail: burongzeng@gmail.com
Wechat: burongz
CURRENT PROJECT
Live Lies in (Non) Movement: the performance for camera (Link)
EDUCATION
PhD in Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Sussex
2017-2022
Credential of Readiness, Harvard Business School Online
(Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting)
2020
MA in International Performance Research
(Erasmus program joint with University of Warwick, Trinity College Dublin, and University of Arts in Belgrade)
2015-2016
MA in Performance Studies, Tisch, New York University
2014-2015
BA in Russian Language & Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
2006-2011
SELECTED WORK
Performance and Exhibition
2023
Life Lies in (Non)Movement, awarded British Council Micro Award Round Five Funding, England.
Conversation with a Horse, Chengdu Contemporary Photography Gallery, Chengdu.
2020
Non-taster (7-day live streaming), London.
2019
All the Tea in China (two series), London
Sit and Wait and Be Sweet, EcoFutures Festival, London.
2018
Warmth or My Scarf, Transart Communication Festival, Nove Zamky, Slovakia.
Lucky Ping-Pong Dragon Karaoke, Migration Matters Festival, Dina, Sheffield.
Living Out of a Suitcase, Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre, London.
2017
Happening at the Very Moment, Power Station of Art, Shanghai.
No Happiness, No Sorrows. Art Garden Festival, C&C No.77 Wangfujing, Beijing.
Weight of Tears, Nanluoguxiang Festival, Penghao Theatre, Beijing.
2016
Restage Pillow Talk by Marta Jovanovic, Radisson Blu Old Mill Hotel, Belgrade.
Medea, One-way Street Space, Beijing.
2015
Happening at the Very Moment, Kong Contemporary Art Agency, Beijing.
Knot, The 16th Open International Performance Art Festival, in collaboration with Shi Ke, Hanbin Deng and Li Yao.Space Station, 798, Beijing.
Fragments of Yourself, 39th Performing Franklin Furnace, in collaboration with Hanbin Deng and Naomi.Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York.
Theatre
2018
Detonator, Drum Tower West Theatre, Beijing.
2017
Who Is Coming to the Fu**ing Dinner, shortlisted for the Best Playscript of World Sinophone Drama Competition for Playwrights.
2016
Shakespeare Inn, Golden Hedgehog College Theatre Festival, 9 Theater, Beijing.
2015
Is It Love? Golden Hedgehog College Theatre Festival, 9 Theater, Beijing.
2014
Kill Mr M, Nanluoguxiang Festival, Penghao Theatre, Beijing.
2013
The Lost and The Unaccepted, Beijing Fringe Festival, Peking University Hall, Beijing.
Extremely Suspended Ⅱ: Let's Do It One More Time, Shanghai Art Drama Center, Shanghai.
The Exception and the Rule, Golden Hedgehog College Theatre Festival, 9 Theatre, Beijing.
2011
Twenty Years after Graduation from College, Oriental Art Centre, Shanghai.
2010
Crossover Ⅲ: Intimate Friend, or Wife, Dalian People's Culture Centre, Dalian.
Crossover Ⅱ: The Hero is Upstairs, 9 Theater, Beijing.
2009
Crossover Ⅰ: Not Reaching Each Other, Penghao Theater, Beijing.
Producing Highlights
2023
Life Lies in (Non)Movement, awarded British Council Micro Award Round Five Funding.
2022
Assistant Producer of ‘Deviated’ with Shanghai-based ensemble Ao_ao_ing (UK-China Connections through Culture Grants recipient)
2020
Assistant Producer of ‘Queering Now’ - a day of performance/screenings by queer Asian artists, Rich Mix, London.
2018-2019
Producer of ‘Lucky Ping-Pong Dragon Karaoke’ - pan-Asian art collective Gasp-C, Chinese Arts Now Festival, The Yard, Marlborough
Theatre, LEAD Festival and Exeter Phoenix.