2023

Public Contemporary Art Project

The number of children displaced worldwide increased by an estimated 2.2 million last year, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). By the end of last year, a record 36.5 million children had been displaced by conflict, violence and other crises, and more than 5 million children worldwide will be 'newly orphaned' by 2023, with war creating a large number of orphans More than 67,000 children in Ukraine have been left without parental care. This is the highest number since the Second World War.

The Taoists say that the true master and disciple are not the disciple who goes to worship the master, but the master who comes to the disciple.

The Our Children Project． is an international children's art project initiated and implemented by conceptual artist Lao Mu. The project aims to find five hundred creative orphans around the world, following the ancient practice of passing on the skills of the master to the disciple, while using artificial intelligence and modern technology on the internet to try to establish a free art education system for orphans based on public welfare.

The project is in the early stages of research and study visits to countries in South East Asia, currently Thailand and Cambodia, and soon Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar...

Dear children, come and play art with Lao Mu, you'll have fun and earn a living!

The Tea Giving Project is a public art in action project initiated and implemented by artist Lao Mu. As a result of the New Coronavirus infection, people all over the world are living in an extremely difficult situation, the artist has become a tea walker, walking in all corners of the world, "giving" the Chinese tea ceremony to all people in the world in the most traditional and modern way, allowing art to break down the boundaries of race, country, class, culture, language.... It is a way for art to break down the boundaries of race, country, class, culture, language and so on, and to make obscure conceptual art a delicacy for everyone to taste.

China is the origin of the tea tree, which was cultivated by the Chinese more than 3,000 years ago, and the earliest record of tea was the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, when tea was used as a herbal medicine.

The act of giving, called dana in Sanskrit, was strongly advocated by the Buddha as it "both promises our individual interdependence and actively engages in the practice of 'letting go of attachment', a practice that frees one from suffering".

2022-2023

Media: video, public media, Internet, comprehensive materials... (the project is under continuous development)

Time: 2022-08-17 11:41 Published in Yunnan

The new crown virus is not scary. Terrible that we did not act!

"Looking for the Five Hundred Arhats" is a continuously developing public art interactive project. It originated from the three-year period of the global new crown epidemic. Governments around the world have carried out the most stringent and thorough "clearing" control. can be performed within a specific range. Survival, anxiety, depression, unemployment, bankruptcy... these have become the daily life of human beings. Facing the threats and challenges to the common destiny of mankind, the artist initiates and implements a "Global 500 Arhats Online" project, with the help of the Internet, self-media and social resources, to establish communication and interaction between human beings through public art, thereby breaking the and reduce the impact and damage caused by natural disasters on human existence.

Online project: establish communication and dialogue with people all over the world through the Internet platform, create "human portraits" and video records in different ways and media. At present, 35 friends from all over the world have been completed.

Offline plan: The artist personally travels to countries on the five continents of the world, looking for interesting people for face-to-face chats, and at the same time creating "portraits" on the spot. At present, ten local residents of Yunnan have been completed.

It is planned to complete a total of 500 "Arhats"

In Buddhism... the fruits of Arhats are inferior to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Shortly after the Buddha's Nirvana, a great disciple of the Buddha, Venerable Kassapa, led a total of 500 people to gather for a meeting in the Qiye Cave on Mount Pibala outside Rajagha, India. The five hundred arhats come from this beginning.

1995-2023

Media: Text. sketch. painting. Video (The work is being sorted out...)

Since 1995, the artist has been continuously recording his mother with paintings and videos. In 2013, his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer by the hospital and was about to die within 20 days. Lao Mu put down the exhibition he was preparing in Beijing. Back home to start taking care of mother. As a result, the mother survived. After that, he took care of and accompanied his mother for almost ten years. At the same time, he used paintings and videos to record the whole process of her mother's illness and treatment until 2023. On January 5, 2019, the old man passed away due to a new coronavirus infection...