Michael Lucken’s work explores how encounters with foreign cultures can challenge established ways of seeing and lead to genuine transformation. In *The Foreign Universal*, he invites us to recognise that every viewpoint is situated and that dialogue becomes meaningful when it changes those involved.
Fuqiao can use this approach as a conceptual framework to help artists develop site-specific projects. It provides a way to examine how an initial artistic intuition may be transformed through engagement with a place, its history and its communities, and then translated into a clear and credible application for an event such as the Setouchi Triennale.
