Ming Poon is a Berlin-based artist, working with applied choreography as a tool to interrogate and re-organise the social and political relationship of the body. In particular, he is interested in activating the potential within the marginalised body and using choreographic strategies that involve decolonisation, vulnerability, care, queerness and failure. For him, movement refers to the body’s ability to move, take action, and have agency to create change. His works are interactive and collaborative in design, and usually take the form of collaborative performances, public interventions and intimate encounters. His practice is inspired by Buddhist concept of interdependence and care, Judith Butler's resistance in vulnerability, Jack Halberstam's queer art of failure, Augusto Boal's theatre of the oppressed and Nicolas Bourriaud's micro-utopias. 

He initiated Asian Performing Artists Lab (APAL) in 2020 as a platform for Berlin/Germanybased artists with asian background and is a founding member of United Networks, a nonprofit organisation that aims to build a network of racialised and marginalised artists, cultural practitioners, activists and community organisers working with performing arts in Germany. 

Website: www.mingapur.com 

IG: @ming.apur