Mengting Zhuo

There’s no better place to premiere STILL NOISE than Disrupt Festival! What began with a conversation with @cambridgejunction and @emaboswood in 2022 has gradually grown through several years of thinking, reflection, experimentation, and a few different iterations, with support from @spill_festival @southlondongallery and @theatredeli . I’m very grateful, and excited, to now have the support of @aceagrams to bring these threads together and work with a group of excellent collaborators to realise it into a full production. 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀: 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 premieres on 19 May at Cambridge Junction. Future booking enquiries are warmly welcomed 🔊 ~ 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀: 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 A 50-min lecture-performance that dissects how silence and noise are socially engineered, and what it costs for a body to truly be heard. Created and performed by Zhuo Mengting Lighting Design by Sanli Wang @_sanli.esf3d Set Design and Construction by Rupert Earl @visuals_ru Textile Collaborator Dominique Savitri Bonarjee @spaceofthenameless Production Support by Burong Zeng @burongz Communications Coordination by Lubing Chen @lubing._.chen Literary Consultant Sam Kastin Key Visuals Design by Runxuan Yang @runnn.x Supported using public funding by Arts Council England #ACEsupported #soundart #noise #liveart

An open rehearsal is never just a rehearsal; in this impossible paradox, can we find the point where things are blurred? The dream project I’ve been planning with @ydp_space as a guest curator finally comes to life next week, through a series of six-hour, long-form performances where music won’t just be music, and words won’t just be words… exactly what will come out I don’t know, but if you’ll be around, you should come to YDP, the new Asian-focused art space in bloomsbury. All the happenings will be one day only, and won’t happen the same way again. 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙍𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜… Jan - April 2026 Performances: 12—6pm, Saturday 17 Jan 12—6pm, Saturday 7 Feb 12—6pm, Saturday 28 Feb last performance in March or April - TBA An evolving, genre-bending performance programme unfolding across the entire YDP building. Conceived as a collaborative framework, ‘Living, Rehearsing…’ invites artists to think of rehearsal as a way of organising, reconfiguring and reimagining how we live, especially amid uncertainty. Over three months, an ensemble of artists working across visual art, performance, comedy, dance and sound will gather for four day-to-night events, where improvisation meets choreography. Different elements of each event will be remixed into installations that remain on view at YDP. Guest-curated by Zhuo Mengting (@timelessclock ), in collaboration with YDP curators Erin Li (@erinmoving ) and Billy Tang (@billytanng ). Admission is free and open to all Booking via @ydp_space Visual design: Goda Budvytytė (@godabud )

Some documentation of the elevator journeys with my sonic intervention in Hangzhou @byartmatters What is composed and what is not? Sounds of autumn will fade into sounds of winter then into spring and till June 2026 🍂❄️🌸 Thank you @byartmatters for taking these videos on my behalf :)

Some light reveals. Some light conceals. Lighting designer @_sanli.esf3d and textile collaborator @spaceofthenameless on how material and light speak to each other in STILL NOISE - premiering on 19 May at @cambridgejunction Filmed and edited by @hollix.x So lucky to be building this with artists who bring their interdisciplinary practice into the room 🫶🌈 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀: 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 A 50-min lecture-performance that dissects how silence and noise are socially engineered, and what it costs for a body to truly be heard. Created and Performed by Zhuo Mengting Set Design & Construction | Rupert Earl @visuals_ru Lighting Design | Sanli Wang @_sanli.esf3d Textile Collaborator | Dominique Savitri Bonarjee @spaceofthenameless Literary Consultant | Sam Kastin Production & Access Consultant | Burong Zeng @burongz Communications | Lubing Chen @lubing._.chen Key Visuals | Runxuan Yang @runnn.x Documentation | Holli Xue Supported using public funding by Arts Council England @aceagrams #ACEsupported #soundart #noise #liveart

Thanks for everybody who came to my sound workshop at @etsdts_ ! First time trying out many of these prompts, and I’m genuinely moved and inspired by everyone’s responses. Listening with ‘Still Noise’ is part of a wider research and performance project, leading towards the premiere of 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀 next week. The titles are almost eponymous because I want to keep the connected enquiry visible: Who decides what is noise in a given space? In the workshop, we asked this question outside — through noticing the missing thing from soundscape on the streets, through doors that were not meant to be opened. We sat with the discomfort of eavesdropping. In the performance, I ask the same question inwardly. What does it mean when I am the one holding the microphone? What have I had to edit out of myself in order to be heard inside an institution that was not built for me? When I filter my own voice to make it carry, am I doing something different from what the city does when it filters its streets? The workshop opens one door, the performance another. Behind both is the same uncomfortable noise. Thank you for spending time with this. Photo / video thanks to @huiwainokk @escdotdot @peijiawho 🌫️🌀

Some space is given. Some space is made. @visuals_ru on the set design for STILL NOISE - premiering on 19 May at @cambridgejunction Filmed and edited by @hollix.x 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀: 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 A 50-min lecture-performance that dissects how silence and noise are socially engineered, and what it costs for a body to truly be heard. Created and Performed by Zhuo Mengting Set Design & Construction | Rupert Earl @visuals_ru Lighting Design | Sanli Wang @_sanli.esf3d Textile Collaborator | Dominique Savitri Bonarjee @spaceofthenameless Literary Consultant | Sam Kastin Production & Access Consultant | Burong Zeng @burongz Communications | Lubing Chen @lubing._.chen Key Visuals | Runxuan Yang @runnn.x Documentation | Holli Xue Supported using public funding by Arts Council England #ACEsupported #soundart #noise #liveart

The DISRUPT 2026 season starts next week! Join us for a week of disruptive and lingering contemporary performance, theatre, and live art. Gen X Gen Z by Tink and Abra Flaherty Thu 14 May • J2 Tom of Finland. Breastfeeding. Men. Raving at the Hacienda decades apart. Just the usual parent and child catch up. A show about parenting where Tink (parent) and Abra (child) ask “without you, who am I?” Still Noise: Ways to Occupy a Performance Space by Zhuo Mengting Tue 19 May • J1 A lecture-performance that dissects how silence & noise are socially engineered, who’s amplified & what it costs a marginalised body to be heard. The Thicket by Yas Clarke Tue 19 May • J1 An intricate, rhythmic and melodic text score, composed for four voices. Sometimes narrative, sometimes abstract & non-verbal – this text is an arcane expression of the human relationship with its environment. Second Trimester by Krishna Istha & Geetha Shankar Wed 20 & Thu 21 May • J2 Trans performance artist Krishna Istha and his mother, Geetha Shankar, confront pregnancy, loss, gender, and the weight of inherited memories in this cinematic, Bollywood-inspired epic family saga. Ticket link in bio.

Some noise is loud. Some noise is still. A little intro into my new piece - premiering on 19 May at @cambridgejunction Filmed and edited by @hollix.x 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀: 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 A 50-min lecture-performance that dissects how silence and noise are socially engineered, and what it costs for a body to truly be heard. Created and performed by Zhuo Mengting Set Design and Construction by Rupert Earl @visuals_ru Lighting Design by Sanli Wang @_sanli.esf3d Textile Collaborator Dominique Savitri Bonarjee @spaceofthenameless Production Support by Burong Zeng @burongz Communications Coordination by Lubing Chen @lubing._.chen Literary Consultant Sam Kastin Key Visuals Design by Runxuan Yang @runnn.x Supported using public funding by Arts Council England #ACEsupported #soundart #noise #liveart

Rehearsal shots from last week for STILL NOISE 📸 @hollix.x The images contain no sound … ;) Premiering on 19 May, at @cambridgejunction : 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙎𝙀: 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 A 50-min lecture-performance that dissects how silence and noise are socially engineered, and what it costs for a body to truly be heard. Created and performed by Zhuo Mengting Lighting Design by Sanli Wang @_sanli.esf3d Set Design and Construction by Rupert Earl @visuals_ru Textile Collaborator Dominique Savitri Bonarjee @spaceofthenameless Production Support by Burong Zeng @burongz Communications Coordination by Lubing Chen @lubing._.chen Literary Consultant Sam Kastin Key Visuals Design by Runxuan Yang @runnn.x Supported using public funding by Arts Council England #ACEsupported #soundart #noise #liveart

Whilst making STILL NOISE, my new piece for theatres, I’ve been carrying a lot of thinking around sound, silence, noise, our affective relationship with them. Ahead of STILL NOISE’s premiere (19 May), I want to open up some of that enquiry in the form of a workshop. I’ve prepared some prompts and listening exercises (perhaps also performative ones), and I’m really curious to hear your take and your associations. Come for a cosy afternoon session on 4 May (it’s a Bank Holiday Monday) ! Thanks @etsdts_ for hosting - a real community space that nourishes both the stomach and the mind 🌯 The workshop is pay what you can via link in bio. If money is a barrier, feel free to DM me. Video taken during my development residency at Theatre Deli X NDT @theatredeli @newdiorama

Sound of electricity in Hong Kong ⚡️ Not every current sounds the same … Performed in December 2025 in @twentyalpha Hosted by @cult_radio888 🎧 Full set video available on the YouTube channel of @hkcronline - via their link in bio Video by Gavin Wong from @hkcronline , audio by @lo4nerve4 🙏 #soundart #noise #improvisation

Exciting updates RE Subtexts: Elemental at @whitechapelgallery on Thursday 9th April! An evening of sound, poetry, and performance that returns to the elemental, to explore what remains after so much has been lost, abandoned, or destroyed. Bringing together their profound experiments in spoken and drawn poems, radio waves, and noise, four unique performers – Stephen Watts, Mengting Zhuo, Ayesha Hameed and Matt Cargill – will collaborate in a one-off performance in the Assembly Room at Whitechapel Gallery. 🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️ There will be vegetarian food provided by @oitijjo_kitchen , and a selection of wine, beer, and soft drinks. (Free with a ticket.)