Reworlding Art History Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art after 1990 -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Departures -- Prologue: Points of Entry -- Frames, Axes: Art History's Temporalities and Spatialities -- 'Worlding' from the Region -- The Southeast Asian Regional Frame: A Critical Mapping -- Cosmopolitan Intersections -- Regional Intervention in 'The Contemporary' -- Coordinates, Parameters, Trajectories: Between the Cultural and the Aesthetic -- PART I PRELIMINARY ENCOUNTERS -- 1 Contemporary 'Southeast Asian' Art: Regional Interventions -- Why 'Southeast Asian' Contemporary Art? -- The Shifting Art-Historical Field for Southeast Asia: Tradition, Modernity, and 'the Contemporary' -- Reworlding 'Contemporary Art' -- Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: Between 'the Cultural' and 'the Aesthetic' -- Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: Oscillating Currents -- Fluid Encounters I: Lani Maestro's a book thick of ocean -- Fluid Encounters II: Yee I-Lann's Sulu Stories -- PART II LOCATING SOUTHEAST ASIAN DIFFERENCE -- 2 Mapping Regional Difference Institutionalized Cartographies of Southeast Asian Art -- A Southeast Asian Regional Agency -- Defining Southeast Asia: Contending with Maps of Colonial Inheritance -- Towards an Art History of Contemporary Southeast Asian Art -- Institutional Perspectives: Locating Contemporary Southeast Asian Art through Regional Exhibitions and Collections -- Alternative Art Spaces in Southeast Asia: From the Margins to the Centres of Contemporary Art -- 'Territorializing' and 'Derritorializing' Regional Difference in the Art of Wong Hoy Cheong -- 3 Exhibiting Southeast Asian Difference: Global and Regional Currents -- Visible Difference: Asian Spectacles and Spectres in International Mega-Exhibitions of the 1990s.

Art and Anthropology: The Ethnographic Impulse -- 'Global Art' Exhibition Precedents -- Dilemmas of Representation: Shifting Asian Identities under Globalization -- A "Journey Without Maps"?: En Route to the 'Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' -- 'Traditions/Tensions': Figuring the 'Asian Contemporary' in Art -- 'Cities on the Move':Tumultuous Visions of the Asian Metropolis -- Interventions of Difference: The International Journeys of Lee Wen's Yellow Man -- Shifting Curatorial Imaginaries for Asian Art: 'Under Construction' and '36 Ideas from Asia' -- Into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Identitarian Art -- PART III COUNTERPOINTS: SOUTHEAST ASIA IN PRACTICE -- 4 Trans/Localities? Between Dwelling and Movement -- Globalizing Currents -- 'A Border Crosser with Good Ballast': The Consummate 'Hybrid' Artist, Heri Dono -- Netscapes: tsunamii.net's Translocal-Locative Aesthetic -- 'A Map to My Own Becoming': Judy Freya Sibayan's Nomadic Aesthetic -- Simryn Gill's Moving Representations -- 5 Memoryscapes: Present Pasts Revisioned -- Gathering Memories: The Aquilizans' Projects of Belonging and Remembrance Across Borders -- Re-Searching History in the Present:The Memory-Work of Wong Hoy Cheong -- Contemporary Aesthetics of Traumatic Memory -- Dadang Christanto's 'Counter-Monuments' to History -- José Legaspi's Dark Pasts - Resurrected and Released -- Making the Invisible Manifest: The Art of Lim Tzay Chuen -- 6 Corporeographies: Locating Intimate Spaces of Art -- Art of the People, for the People: The Politics of Figuration -- Exchanging Skins: The Art of Mella Jaarsma -- Presencing the Abject Body in Singapore: Suzann Victor's Bodies by Proxy -- Nindityo Adipurnomo: The Cultural Matter of Hair -- Ecologies of 'Being-in-the-World': Performing the Body in Art (Roberto Villanueva, S. Chandrasekaran).

Breathly Presence (Ye Shufang, Susyilawati Sulaiman) -- Epilogue: Origins, Futures, Becomings -- Southeast Asia and Contemporary Art History's Contingent Imaginaries -- Contemporary Tracings: Repetition and Difference -- Reflections, Projections, Vectors -- Bibliography -- Index.