Works by Kent Chan: Monsoon Sessions and Warm Fronts
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Title
Works by Kent Chan: Monsoon Sessions and Warm Fronts
Description
Kent Chan
Monsoon Sessions
2022
Two-channel video, 28 min 16 sec
Monsoon Sessions is a series of invitations to three London-based DJs (Chooc Ly, Nadī, mellowdramatics) of tropical descent. Each DJ produced a mix and co-wrote a short story set in a far-flung future with a global tropic. What does it mean to have a New and Old Tropics in a mono-climatic world? The stories unfold along with the filmed DJ sets telling tales of inter-tropical travel and the “mixing” together of different cultures intensified by climate diasporas. Tales and tunes weave through time like the seasonal monsoons of the tropics.
Warm Fronts
2022
Multi-media installation, four-channel video, eight mirror plexiglass
Warm Fronts is a series of transmissions emanating from across the tropics. Tapping into electronic music’s long-held associations as forms of futurist statement, the project began with a series of invitations to music producers/DJ (Guillerrrrmo, Brazil; Makossiri, Kenya; Kaleekarma, India; Gabber Modus Operandi, Indonesia) from different regions of the tropics to each produce an online music set. Each set is alike in its desire to embody in its listeners a musicality in which past and future comes into sync. Collectively they take the form of a video installation with a set of four posters each with a piece of micro-fiction printed on mirrored plexiglass. Together they speak not of the present but foretell a radical tropical future to come. A sonic and solar alliance built not only upon their distanced shared histories, but the potentiality and connectivity of heat.
These works are part of the Temperature Taking Exercises (2023-24), a sub-enquiry of the Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss research project.
Monsoon Sessions
2022
Two-channel video, 28 min 16 sec
Monsoon Sessions is a series of invitations to three London-based DJs (Chooc Ly, Nadī, mellowdramatics) of tropical descent. Each DJ produced a mix and co-wrote a short story set in a far-flung future with a global tropic. What does it mean to have a New and Old Tropics in a mono-climatic world? The stories unfold along with the filmed DJ sets telling tales of inter-tropical travel and the “mixing” together of different cultures intensified by climate diasporas. Tales and tunes weave through time like the seasonal monsoons of the tropics.
Warm Fronts
2022
Multi-media installation, four-channel video, eight mirror plexiglass
Warm Fronts is a series of transmissions emanating from across the tropics. Tapping into electronic music’s long-held associations as forms of futurist statement, the project began with a series of invitations to music producers/DJ (Guillerrrrmo, Brazil; Makossiri, Kenya; Kaleekarma, India; Gabber Modus Operandi, Indonesia) from different regions of the tropics to each produce an online music set. Each set is alike in its desire to embody in its listeners a musicality in which past and future comes into sync. Collectively they take the form of a video installation with a set of four posters each with a piece of micro-fiction printed on mirrored plexiglass. Together they speak not of the present but foretell a radical tropical future to come. A sonic and solar alliance built not only upon their distanced shared histories, but the potentiality and connectivity of heat.
These works are part of the Temperature Taking Exercises (2023-24), a sub-enquiry of the Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss research project.
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Audience
General
Location
Onsite (NTU)
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Yes
Commissioned Work
Yes
Education
No
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Citation
“Works by Kent Chan: Monsoon Sessions and Warm Fronts,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed September 10, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4625.
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