Muyang Teng (b. 1998, Changzhou) works between China and the Netherlands with words, images, installations, and performances. Their materials are atomized, plasticized, snowed, stripped, and echoed, surviving only as ephemera and inadequacy.

They write from places that no longer receive them—demolished elephant slides, cruising places taken down, languages that arrived too late or too thin. Composing through adjacency rather than authority, their work attends to what persists without arriving: the relay, the lag, the door locked and locked again until it loosens. Queerness here names not an identity but something that keeps not quite translating.

After running ElectricLizard (2022–2024), an online platform for anti-Orientalist, feminist, queer ecology, they continue to write and translate from the position of a lowly translator. Currently roaming with the Dutch Art Institute, Muyang shares poetic pieces through small editions and intimate gatherings where contact remains provisional. Recent presentations include EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), V2, WORM, and TENT (Rotterdam), NAC (Lithuania), and Centrale Fies (Italy). They hold a BA in Digital Media Arts from the University of Liverpool (2022) and an MA in Lens-Based Media from the Piet Zwart Institute (2024).

Collapsed, collapsing, holding on.