Land Bodies, Liquid Skins

A program of:
Dwelling Under Distant Suns

Wednesday, November 19
11am–12:30pm ET
On Zoom

This virtual panel brings artist Alvin Luong in close dialogue with critic Tausif Noor, discussing Luong’s consistent methodologies behind his new commission, Cyanide Debt (2025), in dialogue with another body of work, Before I was Coral, I was Refugee (2024-ongoing).  

Land Bodies, Liquid Skins is the second 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

Alvin Luong (b. Toronto) restages and reinterprets moments and objects that are intimate to contemporary life and significant to the development of history. Narrative exposition through film and material experimentation through sculpture is used by the artist to articulate and transform meaning that is gathered through field work, archives, ethnography, and collaboration. This exhaustive approach by the artist collapses temporalities, places, things, and knowledge to create unlikely relationships that make histories and distant sites urgent for understanding a present condition and for imagining new futures. The artist is interested in the transformation of communities and commodities across physical distance, time, and political structures.

Tausif Noor is a critic, curator, and PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing appears in Artforum, Art History, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker, as well as in various exhibition catalogues and edited volumes. He is the recipient of the 2024 Pat Holt Prize for Critical Art Writing, the 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Art Writing, and a 2022 Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation Grant for Short Form Writing. Noor previously worked at the ICA Philadelphia, the Whitney Museum, and the Imperial War Museum in London. He is currently Curatorial Associate at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and an editor at Selva, an open-access peer-reviewed journal of the history and historiography of art.