LU Dadong is an experimental calligrapher, performance artist, and a underground rock-band musician. LU stresses the importance of writing with its complex traditions concerning techniques, instruments and materials. He also stresses that writing as an event, that the artistic act as a happening, that spontaneity and intuition are just as important as acquired skills and know-how with regard to craft traditions. His calligraphic work always refers to various cultural contexts, including Shamanism, Taoism and Japanese Zen painting.