Mingxiang Wang
A London-based interdisciplinary artist and performance designer whose work operates at the intersection of live performance, digital/super 8 film, and sound design
in short, yes I do a bit of everything.
Yes, mum. I know it is confusing and not like a 9-5 job.
But let me explain what my artistic practice is about...
Part 1
Betwixt and Between
From early age, I had sense of being othered without realisation. Moving with my parents from China’s north-west to the central region, my first day at school was filled with questions: “Do you ride horses?” “Can you speak another language?” These reflected common stereotypes about the north-west and ethnic minorities at the time.
Although I am not from a minority background, people projected these assumptions onto me, trying to read difference through my body. For years, I attempted to adapt and fit in, searching for certainty within constant change.
Over time, I came to understand that this state of being undefined is precisely what feels most truthful - self. Through my fluid narratives and the use of varies mediums, I hope my practice speaks to those who living betwixt and between, the wanderers that once lost.
Part 2: The Liminal Space
Liminal Stranding (storyboard), illustrated by Jett Liu *Different colour of drawing to distinguish multi-areas projection mapping
Platform Theatre, London,2023
My practice is grounded in the anthropological concept of Liminality—a condition of being betwixt and between, constantly shifting and unresolved, much like life itself. Across immersive theatre, virtual reality, and projection mapping, I seek to construct sacred heterotopias: spaces where boundaries soften and overlap—between public and private selves, norm and taboo, right and wrong.
These spaces echo my own experience of moving between cultures, identities, and social expectations. Rather than offering clear resolutions, the work holds audiences in a state of suspension, inviting them to remain with uncertainty, to sense how identity, intimacy, and power are shaped—and unsettled—within liminal space.
Part 3
the toilet
Inspired by the contorted bodies in Francis Bacon’s paintings and the readymades of Duchamp, I approach the toilet not merely as a functional object, but as a vessel of porcelain intimacy. It exists at the intersection of hygiene and filth, inside and outside, the public and the private—an everyday object loaded with cultural discomfort and unspoken rituals.
Within liminal settings, the toilet often becomes the only physical object on stage that bridges the filmed world and the present moment. In the Shitalk series, it further transforms into a digital confession booth: a site for confrontation, questioning, and reflection, where shame, humour, and vulnerability are held in tension and spoken aloud.
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