Imagining New Eurasia with New Silk Roads
Professor Kyong Park, University of California, San Diego
"New Eurasian Pavilion, Imagining New Eurasia" at Asia Culture Complex, Gwangju, South Korea, 2015. Photograph by Kyungsub Shin.
The project is an extension of his earlier New Silk Roads project, a multi-faceted urban research project that explored the nascent urban conditions emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions. Through a nomadic practice, Kyong Park 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.
Friday, February 19, 20162:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Presentation Room
Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA
Kyong Park will present his current work, Imagining New Eurasia, a multi-year project to research and visualize the historical precedents and contemporary reconstructions of the continent as a union of Europe and Asia (2015-2016). Its first chapter, “Here, There and Everywhere: Eurasian Cities,” opened as one of the inaungral exhibitions at the newly opened Asia Culture Complex at Gwaguju, South Korea (November 2015), It comprised of a display of 85 works from 77 cities and 41 countries through out Eruasia, and a participatory poetry/image wall from over 2,000 equal numbers of images and words from 155 cities, to together visualize the complex and ever evolving identity of the continent. Central to this project is the New Eurasian Pavilion that will house panoramic projections of animated photographs.
Kyong Park is professor of Public Culture at University of California, San Diego (since 2007), the founding director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York (1982-1998), International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit (1998-2001), of Centrala Foundation for Future Cities in Rotterdam (2005-2006), a curator of Gwangju Biennale (1997), Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Anyang Public Art Project 2010 in Korea. He has exhibited in Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León (Spain), Kunsthalle (Graz), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), Kunst Werke (Berlin) and Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul), and authored “Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond” (2005). His current project is “Imagining New Eurasia,” research-based exhibitions to visualize the continental and urban structure of the continent, commissioned by Asian Cultural Complex in Gwangju.
Co-Sponsored by the East Asian Library.
Sponsor(s): Center for Korean Studies
