As the World Turns brings together different artistic strategies of titling the axis to visualize a truly polyphonic Global South. Extending the discursive affinities that run throughout SOUTH SOUTH’s residency programme, it is collectively curated by the resident curators. The title is appropriated from a popular American soap opera that ran for 54 years ending in 2009. It can be read as a pun of the fundamental shift in the world system that we are experiencing today, which has its roots in the world financial crisis of 2007-2008. From the co-option of the architecture of strongmen and the luxuries of wealth, to the queering of symbols of masculinity and radicalism and to post-historical imaginations of revolution, the selected artworks visually reckon with power. In turn, they lend to new artistic alignments and vocabularies that “bend the axis” in favor of a “Global South” that is no longer restricted to geographical locations.