Speaker:
Carlo Tuason, PhD candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Moderator:
Alvin K. Wong,Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: 23 November 2026 (Monday)
Time: 4:30 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=110165
All are welcome. Registration is required.
This talk examines Hong Kong International Airport as a space-time complex wherein globalization, capitalism, and infrastructural governance produce multiple, overlapping temporalities. Taking the airport transition from centrally located Kai Tak to the more remote Chek Lap Kok through the Airport Core Programme as a point of departure, I consider how airport development enacts aspirations for speed, mobility, and globalized modernity. In relation to these forward-looking temporalities, Christopher K. Ho’s CX889 (2022) evokes an infrastructural past through its restaging of the iconic Kai Tak double ramps in contemporary Vancouver. Through this restaging, the airport becomes a site of both multiple and nonlinear temporalities, revealing how the promises of infrastructural modernity are experienced and reconfigured through migration, memory, and nostalgia.
Carlo Tuason (he/him) is a musician and PhD candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research examines the logistical and infrastructural aesthetics of Global Hong Kong, foregrounding multisensory methodologies that bridge media, visual, and sound studies. His writing has appeared in X-TRA and Amerasia Journal. He has contributed to exhibitions and projects at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Chinese American Museum–Los Angeles.
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