Samboleap Tol
dekolonisatie - Diaspora - geluid - installatie - performance
Samboleap Tol (b. 1990) 's practice focuses on unearthing the postcolonial diasporic psyche, with a central focus on questions of psychological inheritance. She explores ideas of dignity, love, and family that emerge after centuries of colonial brutality, and she delves into the role of reckoning through truth-telling, on both a personal and political level, in restoring faith and dignity in current, past, and future lives. She is currently developing a series of DIY instruments through creative coding, drawing inspiration from ancient Southeast Asian instruments.
She is a research associate at The Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), University of Arts London and a recent graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute, where she won the Piet Zwart Institute's Masters Research Awards. She was a resident at the Cemeti Institute for Arts and Society in Yogyakarta Indonesia from 1st of April until 30 of June 2023 and is nominated for the Dolf Henkes Award 2023.