Timur Si-Qin // Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry, 04/11/2023
Channel: The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Date: 2023-05-05

Timur Si-Qin is a New York-based artist of German and Mongolian-Chinese descent who grew up in Berlin, Beijing and in a Native American community in the American Southwest. Timur Si-Qin’s work is developed in conceptual, branded cycles, which serve as frameworks for his sculptural environments, sculptures, light boxes, CGI videos, and other media. Si-Qin’s work is primarily concerned with the morphogenesis of visual culture and often emphasizes the the common materiality of human and non-human matter.

Si-Qin’s latest body of work is an attempt at pre-constructing the archaeology of a  future sense of spirituality called New Peace, as well as its institutions, aesthetics and rituals. Most recently the  virtual reality experience and installation "Campaign for a New Protocol" for Art Basel Hong Kong immerses viewers in a digitally rendered landscape and in the new spirituality’s basic rhetoric. Here, the natural and the synthetic coalesce in a space beyond the spirit/matter dualities New Peace seeks to shed.