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IMAGINING NEW EURASIA
Chapter 3. Mine, Yours, and Ours: Borders, Territories, and Unions

11 Aug 2017 - 14 Jan 2018


Venue: The Asia Culture Center(ACC)


Chapter 3
Mine, Yours, and Ours: Borders, Territories, and Unions

“Mine, Yours and Ours: Border, Territory and Union,” is a research-based visualization on how people, culture and states have navigated their own existence, or could, in the spaces and times of Eurasia. As virtually every place in Eurasia was occupied by more than one ethnic group, language, or religion through its history, the exhibition highlights the ephemeral certainty of place-based identity of culture and history. It challenges the stasis of territories, while endorsing the integrative quality of the border over its divisional mandate. It inspects the contestations between the reality of distinction and promises of commonality that have marked the territorial composition of Eurasia.

“Mine, Yours and Ours: Border, Territory and Union,” is the third and final exhibition of a three-year long project called “Imagining New Eurasia,” by Kyong Park (2015-2018).

IMAGINING NEW EURASIA

For millennia, Asia and Europe were thought to be separate and distinct. However, today the New Silk Road is under construction with new direct rail shipping from Lianyungang and Wuhan (China) to Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Duisburg (Germany), and Madrid (Spain); more oil and gas pipelines being built and proposed from Central Asia and the Caspian Sea; and China investing in and building new railroads and highways to India and Southeast Asia. Russia has even proposed tunnels and bridges across the Bering Strait to North America. The Old Silk Road, and the Trans-Siberain Railway, and the like are proof that the geography of the continent itself is a unifying force. Imagining New Eurasia is a multi-year project to research and visualize the historical precedents and contemporary reconstructions of Eurasia as one continent. The project wonders what could be the new relationship between East and West, and what would be the new identity of Eurasia. Through a narrative sequence of three distinct chapters, Imagining New Eurasia highlights the significance of cities, networks and territories within the new urban, territorial and continental geopolitics. The project questions if the belief in the movements of commerce, migrations and cultural exchanges will bring about greater understanding between different societies, or if we are headed for only larger clashes of civilizations.

 

+http://imaginingneweurasia.org/intro/

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