Commissioned for Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025, Ali Wong Kit-yi’s Timebombs! is a karaoke performance and lecture that investigates multilayered interpretations of time from Western and Eastern philosophical and theological perspectives. The artist questions how our temporal existence is confined by our bodily condition, and how that informs our choices and responses to various global urgencies—from climate change to the fertility crisis and beyond. Through a personal and feminist lens, Wong ponders whether women experience a unique relationship with time, and if liberation from timelines imposed upon women is possible.

Festival visitors can also look forward to intimate encounters with the artist through her performative activation One-Hour Contract. Drawing from her teaching experience at an art school in New York, Wong invites audience members to join her for private and personalised one-on-one sessions. With limited time slots that visitors can sign up for, One-Hour Contract offers a safe space for creative exchanges, and allows for diverse activities such as reviewing portfolios, musing on video art, or simply sharing silence.