Ho Tzu Nyen’s ongoing project The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (2012–present) poses the following question: What is Southeast Asia? In the modern sense, the term was introduced during the Second World War in a 1941 book by British-born colonial public servant John Sydenham Furnivall. This VR installation examines the gong in Southeast Asia, an instrument that connects societies and individuals through ritual music embodying a sacred cosmology. Requiring substantial resources to produce and favoured by the elite, the gong has also been associated with empire and social stratification since the Southeast Asian Bronze Age.(http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/projects/r-for-resonance-2019)