Approaching the Infinite Narrative

This article thinks through the concept of a longue durée Asian contemporary art history within a global and transcultural framework while taking into account transnational artists’ mobilities and international flows of artistic production. The author explores the work, vision and exhibition history of the Hong Kong-New York artist collective Tomato Grey and the interrelated concepts of modernity, the contemporary, transnationalism, nationalism, nostalgia and the everyday in relation to its artistic production. Hong Kong's ongoing relationship with China and larger global setting is taken into account as the article considers the multivalent and transnational frameworks of the Asian contemporary ‘now’. It further explores the notion of temporality in relation to the artists’ works and the concept of general relativity in relation to the composited imagination involved in conceptualising the ‘Now’ as a continuity of – yet also a non-linear composite of – the ‘Now’ of the past, present and future

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Exhibition · Literature · Mobilities · Modernity · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Temporality · Transnationalism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy