grasping the organic / daydreaming new natures

2021
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¹ Still from a private performance in a Mexican jungle
² grasping SECOND NATURE, AR experiments in Lockdown
³ drawing a memory
⁴ excerpt from Anna Anlin Cheng's Ornamentalism
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" What happens to our notions of the subject when carnality is cultivated not out of flesh but from its fusion with inorganic matter? What happens when we accept that style, mediated through yet detached from a racial referent, may not be simply the excess or the opposite of ontology but may in fact be a precondition for embodiment, an insight that challenges the very foundation of the category of the human?"

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I've been drawing sculptures in air inspired by animalia and myth; the tail of a serpent as ouroboros, eternal return, eclipsing time.
April 22, 2024
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Some days I’m a pendulum that exists on a planet that periodically loses gravity.
July 28, 2025
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.Thinking about starting a drawing live stream from my studio in Brooklyn, a space to draw together as I iterate and experiment with new performance concepts around telepresence and sound …
March 4, 2020

© 2026 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.
𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵
drawing alongside robotic systems since 2015
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© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET. 
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies. For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.  
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.  
embodied collaboration;
metamorphic ecologies.

For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

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