FOCUS www.inkocentre.org Issue No. 29 | JULY 2015 CONTENTS 03 Editorial 04 CineBox Puppet Fantasy, Hooray! 06 Korean puppet theatre at two Children’s Festivals in India. Chennai Chamber Biennale 08 an exposition of contemporary painting from Korea in India. Hamlet_Avataar 10 an Indo-Korean theatre production premieres in India. Heart of Matter 13 A series of reflective conversations. At The Gallery @ InKo Centre 14 - The magic of Hanji - Korean Contemporary Artists Indian writer 16 at Toji Residency in Korea 17 K-Pop Contest 18 News Picks Designed by Studio RDA © InKo Centre. All right reserved. If you wish to reproduce any material published here, kindly contact us at
[email protected] EDITORIAL In an increasingly globalised world, people from diverse backgrounds are often thrown together and have to adapt to co-exist. Old and new divides are being crossed as population burgeons and becomes more heterogeneous. Cultural differences, peculiarities, once contained within national boundaries, now break free to disseminate, percolate and circumnavigate the globe. Cultural intelligence is an ability to adapt to different cultures and to understand people’s values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours and to effectively use this information to communicate, collaborate and negotiate with people from diverse backgrounds. For those who possess it, or acquire it, heterogeneity is not seen as threatening but as creative, exciting, inspiring and enriching. Cultural intelligence analysts speak of the criticality of the core and the flex- the things that will not change or will not change easily or the core and the things we can choose to change easily or that we can adapt to, based on other people or other cultures or the flex.