An essay written by Stanley Qiufan Chen, read by Penny Oxi Peng ~ for the CROSSLUCID exhibition 'The Way of Flowers' at Office Impart Berlin Sept 2025

We are the soil for what comes next by Stanley Qiufan Chen

An artist collective (est. 2018)  that engages in highly collaborative cross-disciplinary projects in co-evolution with technology. 

Their work and research converges around the exploration of the self as a network; intimacy and the potential for pleasurable actualization through the digital sphere, and the re-imagination of our alliances with technology seen as part of a sympoietic biosphere and universal post-material consciousness.

Through explorations spanning filmmaking, poetic Artificial Intelligence, multi-layered techniques of collage, assemblage and experience-led interventions they create scenarios and build experiential formats that instigate prototyping and rehearsing potential futures and progressing metamodern values.