Sahjan Kooner, dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage, Installation View, Kunsthal Gent. 2024.  

Drawing on ancestral and migratory knowledge to speculate on the future, Sahjan Kooner’s practice combines social gathering, technology and imagination to create dialogues across different places, times and people. Their work unfolds through film, sculpture, installation and video games using materials including clay, essential oils, 3D imaging, and neural networks. Projects are frequently created with others from technologists and bioscientists, to other artists, school children and even their Mum. 

Kooner’s residency is a first-of-its kind, part-time, six month residency, embedded between The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Wysing Arts Centre. The partnership provides Kooner with the opportunity to experiment with new approaches, materials and technologies without the expectation of developing new work and with the freedom to push boundaries. During the residency Kooner will also work directly with young people already engaged with both organisations. 

Kooner lives and works in the Midlands, UK. Selected projects include dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage, Kunsthal Gent, Gent; Incidental Artists, Doings, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (both 2024) and HONEY + danknessarchive, UP Projects, London (2023). They are currently part of Syllabus VII, a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme convened by Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Art Exchange, PS2, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire.  They co-run the Birmingham Resistance Library with Lucy Lopez, a community resource in Balsall Heath for planning, imagining and activating modes of resistance.  

In partnership with Raspberry Pi Foundation, Cambridge.