Sammie Tjon Sien Foek
Artificial Times
Biography
Sammie Tjon Sien Foek is a multidisciplinary artist of Chinese and Surinamese descent. Their practice weaves together philosophical inquiry and sound research with performance art and moving image. Through a social-critical and post-colonial lens, their work interrogates the meaning of our current Zeitgeist, challenging dominant narrative forms and exploring the complexities of identity, memory, technology and cultural heritage.
Untitled: '19101994'
My project touches upon trans humanism, techno-optimism and the neurosis of transparency within the whims of our zeitgeist. In which ways can a post-colonial interpretation of identity awaken a haunting sense of opaqueness which reflects the echoes of ancestral 'ghosts' within a techno-surveillance state? And how can the iconography of the cyborg represent a more radical form of self as a 'being together' which transgresses algorithmic fixity and the likes of techno fascism?