Temp_ Institute is a two-week programme comprising research seminars and public lectures, designed for arts and cultural professionals and tertiary-level students from Hong Kong and across Asia.

From 2018 to 2023, Tai Kwun Contemporary curated five editions of Summer Institute, bringing together scholars and participants to explore a range of pressing and significant art and cross-disciplinary topics - body and artificial intelligence, ecology and technology, time and space, labour and privilege, among others. Through alternative approaches to pedagogy and knowledge-making, we investigated future opportunities and challenges facing art, society, and the wider world.

Building on this legacy of "temporarily instituted" learning and discussion, Temp_ Institute continues to foster an open network, enabling participants to engage in in-depth dialogue with some of the most important art theorists and scholars, curators, artists, and philosophers from Hong Kong and abroad, together constructing a platform for the convergence of ideas.