Talk at the 'The New New Normal' Global Art Forum by Jaya Klara Brekke, commissioned by Shumon Basar and Curators Y7 (Hannah Cobb and Declan Colquitt).
"Multipolarity is no longer an abstract geopolitical concept. It can be seen and felt through disruptive Chinese AI models and electric vehicles, or in the South Korean K-dramas and cosmetics that dominate much of global culture. In this session, Jaya Klara Brekke described the decline of United States tech supremacy and the dream of decentralisation, while Milia Xin Bi told the story of the rise of “Internet Art” in post-2008 China. What do these ruptures say about new centres and the axis shift in power, perception and persuasion?
Speakers that contributed to the forum included Private Ear, Lawrence Abu Hamdan; Theorist and CSO at Nym Technologies, Jaya Brekke; Writer & Brand Consultant, Al Hassan Elwan (POSTPOSTPOST); Writer, Editor, and Creative producer, Halle Frost; Lecturer and Researcher, Idil Galip; Artist, Researcher, Aya Gawdat (Onewiththeinternet); Architect and Writer, Rem Koolhaas; Artist and Writer, Charlie Koolhaas; Multimedia Artist, Zein Majali; Head of Product Development, Quantinuum, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis; Artist, Researcher, and Co-founder of Cream Projects, Ana Nicolaescu; Artistic Director of Serpentine, London, Hans Ulrich Obrist; Consultant, Venkatesh Rao; Curator and Writer, Milia Xin Bi; Artist and Writer, Artist and Researcher, Günseli Yalcinkaya; and Gary Zhexi Zhang."