Solar Orders

2025.01.18 Saturday 19:30

Location

Macalline Center of Art, 706 Beiyi St, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Performer:Kent Chan, Temple Rat

Solar Orders is a project speculating upon a fictional, future, and global tropics, premised upon real-world observations that the tropics are expanding (due to the climate crisis). Fermenting in our collective anxiety, might climate forecast come to be seen as prediction, and in time prophecy?

 

Solar orders are future societies whereby the sun forms the central organising principle and philosophy of the future milieus. Predicated upon a heightened relationship to the sun and greater reliance on solar energy. From our myriad energy needs to the food we eat, what would it mean to submit oneself to the superabundance of the Sun. What is music's role in connecting the terrestrial to the solar at different moments of our path around the Sun?

 

On 18 January 2025, Singaporian artist Kent Chan will collaborate with DJ, producer Temple Rat, presenting an audiovisual performance that brings together storytelling, moving-images, and music, speculating upon these future societies that may come to be in the temperate-turned-desert-turned-tropics.

 

About the Performer: Kent Chan

Kent Chan is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in Netherlands and Singapore. His works have taken the form of moving images, text, performances, and exhibitions. 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.

 

About the Performer: Temple Rat

Temple Rat is the alias of Yuxin Mei, a composer, Erhu player, and DJ from China, currently based in Berlin. Her work seamlessly merges traditional folk instruments with contemporary electronic music production, skillfully incorporating self-built sound design tools and field recordings to craft her unique sonic identity. Her performances, which include live acts and DJ sets, are often centered around extensive field recordings and emotionally charged storytelling. She has performed at iconic venues like Berghain, Art Biesenthal, Zenner, and Boiler Room Shanghai, among others.

The Macalline Center of Art (MACA) is a non-profit art institution located in the 798 Art District of Beijing and officially inaugurated its space on January 15, 2022. Occupying a two-story building with a total area of 900 square meters, MACA unites artists, curators, and other art and cultural practitioners from around the world. Through its diverse, ongoing, and collaborative approaches, the Center establishes a new site on the contemporary art scene. Guided by the “work of artists” and backed by interdisciplinary research, the Center aims to bring together a community passionate about art and devoted to the “contemporary” moment so as to respond proactively to our rapidly evolving times.