"Indeed, one of the major failures of the twentieth century was the inability to articulate the almost standardized ecological thinking endowed with a strong European humanism; technology was received as a provocation to either a reactionary politics base don a dualism between tradition and modernity, or a fanatical accelerationism which believes that the problems we have inherited will finally be resolved by technological advancement, whether it be geo-engineering for repairing the earth or the subversion of capitalism by accelerating towards full automation."
captured my own movements as spatial data to create these GENESIS sculptural forms — each piece is an array of positions, gestures, traces of the body in physical space
detritus & mechanism, today; morning light and tracing sculptural encasings for cocoons, trying to give my silkworms a good life while they're here, before death and/or metamorphosis
Intertwining my meditation and art practice. They're both simple interventions that shape my days -- alternating between varying states of flow, alternatives to the addiction to control, reliance on certainty
on view last month at DER TANK: The Centre for Art Gender and Nature as part of @HEK_Basel's #MESHFESTIVAL
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𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵
drawing alongside robotic systems since 2015
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© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
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