- Capital Normal University, Beijing
- Conceptual Performance
- Installation
- Architectural Salvage
- Biscuit Cities
Song Dong creates installations and performances around family memory, domestic objects, impermanence and everyday ritual. Waste Not, made with his mother Zhao Xiangyuan, assembled thousands of household objects accumulated over decades.
Installation; performance; video
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen in "Beijing" - Season 10 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Song Dong: 生 / Shēng | Art21 "Extended Play”
Major Works
- 2005Waste Not
- 1996Breathing
- 1995 onwardWater Diary
- 1996Stamping the Water
- 2003 onwardEating the City
- 1990sWriting Time with Water
- 1997Touching My Father
- 2010Doing Nothing Garden
- 2005 onwardThe Wisdom of the Poor
- 2000sFamily Members
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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