Artist  portrait By  Mikeskelton
DongDong(Dongting Huang)

DongDong is a Chinese-born, London-based artist working across performance, moving image, installation, and participatory practice. Their practice investigates how perception, participation, and material processes co-produce shifting systems of meaning.

Through the use of trace, repetition, and transformation, their work constructs environments in which stability dissolves and form remains in flux. Their practice engages the body as a relational node within dynamic material and sensory systems, where it is continuously shaped through interaction.

Increasingly, their work approaches participation as a generative condition, where meaning and form emerge through interactions between human and non-human elements. These processes remain open-ended, unfolding through ongoing involvement, contingency, and transformation.



EDUCATION
2022-2024 —Performance Design and Practice,Central Saint Martins, London, UK — Master 
2017-2021 — Radio and television Editing and Directing,South China Agricultural university, Guangzhou, CN — Bachelor 

ART COLLECTIVE
2024-Now — Scrapheap Collective(SHC) Founder&Director, London,UK

SHOW/PERFORMANCE
ARTISTIC PROJECTS
2026 — Future Visa Centre (Participatory Performance & Installation)Part of Future Imaginaries, 1B Window Gallery, London, UK (Initiator & Director & body Translator)
2026 — Thank You Has Been Registered (First public test of the immersive version) ,Vespers Club, London,UK (Concept & Direction & Performance)
2026 — One-Meter Chain Reaction, Haphazard 2026, Z-arts,Manchester,UK (Concept & Direction & Performance)
2026 — Thank You Has Been Registered, Psychonaut Scratch, Theatre Deli, London (Concept & Direction & Performance)
2025 — On the White Ground-Cleansing,Contact Theatre, Manchester — 25th Emergency Festival (Concept & Direction & Lead Performance)
2024 — Last Night We May Have Died, Platform Theatre, London,UK (Concept & Direction & Writing & Stage & Prop Design & Video Editing)
2023 — Labyrinth of Sacrifice, The Crypt Gallery, London,UK (Direction & Writing & Video Editing)


AWARDS/NOMINATIONS
2024 — Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Canada (Nominations: Best Performance, Best Art Direction), Toronto, Canada

PUBLICATION/PRESS
2026 — FAD Magazine,UK — Artist Dongting Huang’s ‘Future Visa Centre’, a temporary institution for speculative migration (Editorial review)
2026 — Afterview, UK — Lying in Limbo: A Review of On the White Ground – Cleansing (Performance review)
2026 — Canto Cutie, Volume 10, USA (Featured artist)
2026 — Suboart Magazine, Issue 61, Lisbon,PT (Featured artist)
2025 — Dogfight, Runt Magazine,Issue 3, USA (Featured artist)
2025 — Carnations, Violets & Lavender (CV&L), Issue 4,Delos Publishing, UK (Featured artist)

EXHIBITION&SCREENING
2026 — AFTERDARK, KĀSA Park Royal, London, UK (Group Exhibition & Fashion Show,Featured artist)
2026 — Welcome Aboard, Bouncingaround Migration,Hale Wharf,London,UK(Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2026 — Sonder, Queen Alexandra’s  House, London,UK (Site-responsive group exhibition, Featured artist)
2026 — Cis and Desist, The Outsiders Gallery Dalston, London,UK (Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2025 — Queer Christmas Cabaret, Live Art Ireland & North Tipperary Queer Shed, Tipperary, Ireland ((Official Screening, Featured artist)
2025 — In The Seam: Where Silence is Sewn, Fitzrovia Gallery, London,UK (Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2025 — White Noise of Belonging: Ripples of Registration, The exchange Bush house, London,UK (Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2025 — To Slime Away, Outhouse gallery, London,UK (Theme Exhibition, Selected Artists)
2025 — Bankley Open 2025, Bankley Gallery, Manchester,UK(Featured artist — artwork selected as main visual for exhibition poster)
2025 — Battleaxe, Unit2,St Leonards on Sea,UK (Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2025 — CHEEKY LONDON 25, Tradestars Islington, London,UK(Group Exhibition, Selected artist, Part of the London Design Festival)
2025 — M(asking), The Good Rice Gallery, London,UK(Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2025 — Un-trans-lated, Greatorex Street, London,UK (Group Exhibition, Featured artist)
2024 — The Contemperament Music Festival, London, UK (Official Screening, Featured artist)

COLLABORATIONS
2026 — 48 Stunden Neukölln 2026 | The Architecture of Needing,Berlin,DE (Performer)
2026 — 7th TICAFEST|Beibei Wang × Percussio n Xiang: Worlds of Sound,East Kowloon Cultural Centre,HK (Interdisciplinary Collaborator)
2025 — Mountains and Seas - Song of Today, Omnibus Theatre,London, UK (Director Assistant)
2025 — Manchester Collective 2025 UK Tour (Main Visual Performer)

RESIDENCIES
2025 — Cultivating Queer Disabled Visions, Live Art Ireland, Ireland

CONFERENCE

2026 — Xenopoem Conference 2026, Online (Presenter)