hú-tu (Laura 嘟嘟 & huiyin zhou) is an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology, working across moving image, photography, performance, and collaborative writing. Since 2020, huiyin and Laura have collaborated on over 40 performances, workshops, and exhibitions exploring diasporic queer identity, family memory, generational trauma, and collective grief through ritualistic and community-centered processes.

Dedicated to multidisciplinary art and transnational organizing, Laura and huiyin co-founded and co-direct the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草. They also facilitate the Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden (SAANG Project 春风吹), a co-creative, imaginative land for sexual and racial abuse survivors. hú-tu creates spaces of co-living and collective rest to (re)imagine and (re)learn intimacy and collective survival. Working with material, affective, residual, and conceptual presences, their works speak on/into the potential of intimate knowledge production. Responding to each others’ dream journals and familial photo/video archives, their ongoing project explores memory and home-making through a diasporic queer lens.

huiyin and Laura have been awarded residencies at Durham Art Guild, BRIClab, Pedantic Arts, and Feminist Incubator. Their work has received support from BRIC, Raleigh Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Queens Art Fund, Asian American Arts Alliance, Durham Arts Council, and beyond.