During her residency, Hildegund Amanshauser will be connecting with local artists, curators and art institutions to introduce the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and its grants. Her research aims to explore the possibilities of networking in Southeast Asia in light of her ongoing project Global Academy?. During her public talk she will retrace the history of the Summer Academy, founded by Oskar Kokoschka in 1953, and discuss the potentialities and challenges of learning and teaching art in the globalised world.