fORUM is Mercer Union’s ongoing series of talks, lectures, interviews, screenings, and performances.
Alvin Luong, in conversation with Theresa Wang (Director & Curator), discusses his current exhibition, DEPHINITELY PARADISE, as part of a trilogy of projects about the Malaysian island, Pulau Bidong—once the epicentre of the American-Vietnam War refugee crisis. Luong will share his process for developing this expansive body of work, which connects Bidong’s refugees with the rehabilitated corals cultivated there today, and speak to the various approaches his work has taken to address the entangled transiting of each in displacement and trade, loss and regeneration.
