In this performance, Kent Chan collaborates with sound artist Zai Tang to fuse storytelling, moving image, and music in an audiovisual act that spins global imaginaries and future scenarios around the Sun. The work revolves around ‘Solar Orders’, speculative societies of a future global tropics defined by a vital relationship to the Sun as a cosmic organising principle and primary energy source. Conjuring entropic dynamics, new social bonds, and ancient divine lore, the work arises from Chan’s ongoing research on the tropics and climate change, channelling his vision of expanded tropical futures. (Text by Eunice Lacaste).
Zai Tang is an artist, composer, and sound designer based in Singapore. Drawing influence from acoustic ecology, philosophy, and electronic and experimental music, his practice is built upon a belief that listening is an invaluable means of attuning to and forming deeper relationships with the worlds we inhabit.
Solar Order Performance:
Date: 24 January 2026
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm
Location: The Hall, NTU Centre for Contemporare Art Singapore, 6 Lock Road, 01-09, Gillman Barracks, 108934
Due to limited capacity, audiences will be accommodated on a first-come basis.