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Solar Orders

Kent Chan

A.I. Gallery, London

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Solar Orders
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A.I. Gallery, London
Year
2023
Duration
17 min 41 s
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Two-channel HD video with audio

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Solar Orders is a film that envisions a fictional future premised on real-world observations that the tropics are expanding due to the climate crisis. Fermenting in our collective anxiety, might climate forecasts come to be seen as predictions, and eventually as prophecy? Within the work, Solar Orders shape future societies where the sun forms the central organising principle, even a philosophy of the future milieus. From our myriad energy needs to the food we eat, what would it mean to submit oneself to the superabundance of the sun? What of music’s role in connecting the terrestrial to the solar, at different moments of our path around the sun? Bringing together storytelling, myths, and music by five DJs -each located in the tropics, Solar Orders speculates upon these future societies and of landscapes of the temperate zones turning into deserts, turning subsequently into the tropics.

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Kent Chan

Artist
kentchan.info

1984, Singapore

Kent Chan

KENT CHAN (b. 1984, Singapore) is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in Netherlands and Singapore. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that form a triumvirate of practices porous in form, content and context. He holds particular interest in the tropical imaginary, the past and future relationships between heat and art, and contestations to the legacies of modernity as the epistemology par excellence. His works have taken the form of film, text, conversations and exhibitions.