Tropical Futurism

A program of:
Dwelling Under Distant Suns

Saturday, November 29
12pm–1:30pm ET
On Zoom

This virtual panel brings artist Kent Chan in conversation with Julian Ross to discuss the research behind Chan’s Future Tropics (2023–24) and Solar Orders (2024) and to consider how the framework of Tropical Futurism can offer foresights and methods for collaborative futures. 

Tropical Futurism is the third and final 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

Kent Chan is an artist, curator, and filmmaker based in the 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 moving-image, text, performances, and exhibitions. 

Julian Ross is Head of Film Programming & Distribution at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2025, he was on the selection committee for the Frieze x ICA Artists’ Film Programme, the advisory committee for Projections at Art Rotterdam and the Netherlands Film Fund and Mondriaan Fund’s De Verbeelding development fund, and the jury for Loop Fair.