Tuesday, March 2, 2010
6pm
Gallery 1100 A+A, 845 W Harrison St.
Chicago, IL 60607

http:// www.arch.uic.edu/index.php
http://www.mvrdv.nl/#/office/principalarchitects/winymaas

New Silk Roads (NSR) is a multi-faceted urban research project that explores the nascent urban conditions emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions. Through a nomadic practice, Kyong Park has conducted a series of sequenced expeditions through transitional regions and cities between Istanbul and Tokyo, documenting his encounters of the people and landscape through photography, video, and audio/video interviews of local and international experts. The project is an examination of territorial conditions that constructs the interconnected system of the contemporary Asian landscape. Approaching urban cities as an ecology of built systems, structures and institutions, NSR presents alternate understandings of urban research and theory through artistic practice. NSR was first presented at Kyong Park: The New Silk Roads, at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in Spain (2009-10), and was undertaken with the support of the Graham Foundation,  the Visual Arts Department, the Division of Humanities and Arts, Academic Senate Research Funds at University of California San Diego, and University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA).

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