Since the early 2000’s artist Köken Ergun has been devoted to a transnational artistic practice, in which shifting identities of specific social groups in given contexts embody grand narratives of the world economy and new nationalist ideologies. His videos and installations are led by his exploration into how globalization has conditioned new forms of cultural identities. Ergun is particularly interested in different worlds being formed amongst non-dominant communities, such as the large global Filipino diaspora, or the global and regional networks of exchange and dominance established by various mid-size powers. Trained in the Tibetan thangka painting tradition, Tashi Lama has mastered this ancient genre. Connected by ancestry to Tibetan cosmology, the artist employs the possibilities of his technique to comment on his surrounding reality. Spatial dimensions and temporality in thangka painting have the capacity to interconnect celestial dimensions with earthly dilemmas. They encapsulate a sense of representing a totality and are thus allegorical of real and supernatural phenomena, geological and celestial. They are operatic in their symphonic glory, and therefore a stage on which to represent the world and human conditions.