Sian Fan

An interdisciplinary artist whose practise spans technology and performance to explore mixed identities, existing between worlds and what it means to be human in the digital age.

Drawing on her background in contemporary and aerial dance, Fan suspends, fragments and augments the body via choreography and digital techniques. She works across mediums, combining the physical and the virtual through sculpture, performance, animation, moving image and virtual & augmented reality.

Coming from mixed heritage (Chinese and British) her practice meditates on her own fragmented sense of identity, exploring what it means to exist in between worlds. She delves into her complicated connections with her own heritage, reflecting on diaspora, cultural imposter syndrome and the objectification of Asiatic bodies. She is particularly interested in the uneasy synchronicities between Asian and cyborgian bodies; in popularised depictions of Asiatic bodies in anime and video games; and in the thresholds of human identity where one exists as both and neither at the same time. Through her work she hopes to discover new ways for us to coexist with technology.

Sian Fan is based at Somerset House Studios.