NEXT- Verein für bildende Kunst- represented by Luise Kloos organized together with the Nomadic University an oasis in Graz which was titled „China goes to Europe". The cultural policy of China is to create Confucius Institutes (CI) all over Europe and also in Graz. In a series of lectures, experts discussed the historical, aesthetic, cultural, economic and educational implications of such a project. During a special Think Tank designed by Raymond Saner, the participants discussed the local conditions for such CI in the European context. The goal of the lectures and of the think tank was to generate insights that could be relevant for other European cities as well. The event was a collaboration involving NEXT- Verein für bildende Kunst, the Nomadic University, the City of Graz, the Land Steiermark and the Embassy of China in Vienna.

Economic inequalities are not god-given fatalities. They are manufactured every day by human actions resulting in poverty for those excluded from our societies. The production of economic inequalities consists of very specific political and social manipulations, often not easily visible to many of us.
We produce economic inequality by structuring our labour markets in such a way that wages are not determined by supply and demand alone or by skills and competences. In many countries, whether rich or poor, people are often not given a job because they have the wrong skin colour, gender, religious or sexual preferences or adherence to political parties considered negatively by those who do the recruiting.