Shori Sims

As an artist and performer, I explore the search for meaning in a symbol-mediated present and the reciprocal relationship between technology and identity. My interdisciplinary practice spans installation, performance, and new media, with a deep investment in digital video. I approach each installation I build as a scene: lived in and acted upon. Individual objects and videos function as clues, linked in purpose and sensibility, assembling open-ended narratives that invite viewers to draw their own associations.

My work blends quotidian found and sculpted objects with uncanny imagery, evoking both the joy of discovery and the unease of futures yet to come. I consider my installations as sets: constructed environments where objects perform, shift meaning, and implicate the viewer in acts of observation and interpretation. Storytelling—particularly as a way people reason through grief and transmit history—guides my practice, which I see as participating in a lineage of collective world-making.

My scholarly and conceptual interests center on how media, video technology, and time-based forms shape cultural imagination. I’m especially drawn to the intersections of ontology, phenomenology, and salvationist narratives in the pursuit of meaning in the 21st century. Ultimately, I use material and media not as endpoints, but stepping stones—tools to think through the body as both object and home, a container for consciousness, and a site of multiplicity

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