Image Credit: courtesy of the Artist.
Everyone is invited to come and hear Alvin Luong speak on Wednesday, October 8 at noon in the Critical Media Lab (East Campus Hall 1205).
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. Luong has exhibited at institutions including Gudskul (Jakarta), The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), Times Art Museum (Guangzhou), and The Art Museum at the University of Toronto (Toronto). The artist’s works are held in the Permanent Collection of The Rockefeller Foundation (New York City).