Bounded Time, Endless Becomings

A program of:
Dwelling Under Distant Suns

Friday, October 31
10:30am–12pm  
On Zoom

This virtual panel brings artist Solveig Qu Suess in conversation with Professor Weixian Pan. Formed through clusters, the conversation brings stories from the basins while diving into the varied sets of hydroelectric imaginaries mediated by visual media and the difficulties of representing environmental and developmental precarities that occur across temporal and spatial distances.  

Bounded Time, Endless Becomings is the first event of Across Distance from the Sun, a series of virtual panels that position waterways and solar rays as art spaces, focusing on the imaginaries attached to both forces in conversation with the practices of the exhibiting artists of Dwelling Under Distant Suns.

Registration is required to receive the Zoom link for this event.

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About the Panelists

Solveig Qu Suess is an artist and researcher working across documentary cinema, installation, and writing. Her work moves through the intervals of systemic change, tracing how power and technology shape collective and intimate experiences of time and space. Drawing from planetary infrastructures and personal archives, she explores how emotional and sensory worlds register the forces that structure perception, opening spaces for reimagining how the world is seen and inhabited. Her work has been featured in art institutions and film festivals globally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Onassis Stegi Athens, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Jameel Arts Centre Dubai, ZKM Karlsruhe, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Göteborg Biennale, and Kunsthall Trondheim, among others. She has received fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Digital Earth, and held residencies at NYU Shanghai, Fondazione Prada, Li Xianting Film Fund and Tabakalera. Her writing has appeared in e-flux Architecture, Duke University Press, and Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Basel and a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai. 

Weixian Pan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. Her research centers on the politics of visuality, critical media infrastructure, and environmental media. Her current book project, Frontier Vision: The Geopolitics of Seeing China’s Borderlands, offers a transhistorical view of the visual regimes that recalibrate natural environments and their political promises through geological extraction, mediation of hydropower, and maritime signal sovereignty. Her work appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Feminist Media Histories, Television and New Media, Culture Machine, Asiascape: Digital Asia, and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. In the past, she has led curatorial projects such as “Elemental Relations: Thinking Ecologically through Artist Film and Video” (2021) and co-organized interdisciplinary workshop “Strata of the Asia Pacific: Mediating the Geologic and Aquatic Environment”. She is currently working on a collaborative video project on the hydraulic and infrastructural landscapes along the Pearl River in southern China.