Tai Kwun｜The second chapter of Stay Connected：Art and China —— Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe exhibition

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Tai Kwun Contemporary will launch Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe on 28 Feb 2026 as the second chapter of Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008. More than 40 participating artists will share their reflections on the impacts of globalisation and economic development on human communities and the environment, while also imagining alternatives grounded in care, reciprocity, and resilience.

Continuing the human-centred approach of the first chapter, Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud (26 Sep 2025 – 4 Jan 2026), this exhibition shifts our attention from the digital world to the material one. Focusing on the legacies of manufacturing, labour, and logistics that sustain daily consumption, artists explore how we are connected—not only through what we consume, but through shared struggles and imagined futures.

Throughout the exhibition period, Tai Kwun Contemporary will hold cross-disciplinary activities, including video screenings, curatorial talks, and the launch of a companion publication produced in collaboration with Asia Art Archive.

Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008 offers a panoramic presentation of contemporary art addressing social realities of twenty-first-century China. Across the two interconnected chapters, Navigating the Cloud and Supplying the Globe, the exhibition seeks to foreground innovative art practices in an era of technological advances and transnational flow of people, ideas, and materials.

Image Credit: Still image from Zheng Yuan’s Dream Delivery (2018), courtesy of the artist