Heat Maps: Queens is a new series of durational painting video works. They were made outdoors on location in three neighborhoods in Queens that are rated high risk on a scale called the Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI). The artworks themselves function as an index of the green space inequity and systemic racist policy in urban planning that ultimately lead to the formation of these heat islands. The project was supported by a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Future Present, by Tausif Noor, 2018

Noor is a writer currently based in Philadelphia, where he is the Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellow at ICA Philadelphia. He is a contributing editor at Momus, and his writing has appeared in catalogues for the India Habitat Centre, the CUE Foundation, and in publications such as Bomb, Art Asia Pacific, Frieze, ArtReviewAsia and Artforum.com, among others.