Zheng Bo

Zheng Bo

China

 

Zheng Bo lives and works in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Committed to multispecies vibrancy, Zheng is learning to cultivate ecological wisdom beyond the Anthropocene. He creates weedy gardens, living slogans, eco-queer films, and Wanwu Practice Group. His solo exhibitions in 2021 include Wanwu Council (Gropius Bao, Berlin), You Are the 0.01% (Schering Stiftung, Berlin), and Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy? (Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong). In 2022, Zheng is presenting a new dance film Le Sacre du printemps at the Venice Biennale. He participated in Liverpool Biennial (2021), Yokohama Triennale (2020), Manifesta (2018), Taipei Biennial (2018), and Shanghai Biennial (2016).

Ecosensibility Exercises

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2016-

 

Zheng Bo tests simple everyday methods to connect with plants, aiming “to move away from the human-centric ways of our contemporary life.” Believing that bodily exercises are as important as theoretical discussions, he sketched weeds, sang to trees and honoured forests. These became daily practices called Ecosensibility Exercises.

Inspired by many cultures, he learned to sense tree energy with a qigong master in Hong Kong, researched a Japanese ritual honouring trees as sacred beings and was taught the Drinking Sun Exercise by Indigenous Mari artist Joulia Strauss.

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