The main contributor to this blog was as lucky as to be invited to travel along to South Korea with Expodium to host a bootcamp and do some lecturing. All that preparatory work was greatly brought to a fine finish by the participating artists in the residency program of SpaceBeam, see the blog here. In that process of collaboration between Dutch, Greek and Korean artists and thinkers some topics emerged: the death of modernism as we knew it, the changes in global political dominance, and the brewing process of Cheongju. As not to bother you with any lingering on that alcohol, let’s see what those changes in global perspective could be.

If we take the list of global cities in 2015, researched and compiled by McKinsey, and to be found here we see the old Western dominance is over with. Indeed, nothing new. But interesting for audiences here, as little of us do truly understand what the new Pacific Century might bring us.  American scholar Robert Kaplan wrote about it, hell, what doesn’t he write about, in 2005 already and in 2010 he published the book Monsoon, in which he writes down his research on the military developments in the Pacific.

But now that the West is losing ground wouldn’t it be more interesting and more knowledgeable to listen to scholars from ‘the rest’, to use that awful term for once and for the last time? How lucky than that festivals everywhere do realize this and invite interesting lecturers from elsewhere. One of those festivals is the new-media festival can i really get back my x