Time lost its tethering in the Kathmandu Triennale 2077. One of the central figures in artist Thảo Nguyên Phan’s part-history, part-fantasy three-channel video installation Mute Grain, 2019, dies of starvation during the harrowing 1945 famine in Vietnam. Her hungry ghost passes into a future where the dead, propelled by nothing more than the unfulfilled desire for food, do not belong. In Subash Thebe Limbu’s Ningwasum, 2022, two Indigenous time-traveling astronauts from a coming Yakthung nation returned to the present-day Himalayas. The film imagines a future in which Indigenous communities