| Table of Contents | 5 |
| Introduction | 8 |
| Mapping contemporaneity / Wu Hung | 18 |
| When you return / John Pule | 28 |
| Montien Boonma | 38 |
| Eugene Carchesio | 42 |
| Heri Dono | 46 |
| Joan Grounds | 50 |
| Ralph Hotere | 54 |
| Yayoi Kusama | 58 |
| Lee U-fan | 62 |
| Jose Legaspi | 66 |
| Michael Ming Hong Lin | 70 |
| Nalini Malani | 74 |
| Nam June Paik | 78 |
| The Pasifika Divas | 82 |
| Lisa Reihana and the Pasifika Divas | 88 |
| Michael Riley | 92 |
| Song Dong | 96 |
| Suh Do-Ho | 100 |
| Howard Taylor | 104 |
| Artist Endnotes | 108 |
| Forking tongues [conversation] | 112 |
| Artist biographies | 126 |
| Catalogue of works | 150 |
| Acknowledgements | 154 |
| Index | 158 |