7 September 2022, 19:00 / Casco HQ

For the launch of the artist book Letter to a Silk Road there will be an outdoor installation/exhibition for one summery evening, as well as a presentation and discussion in our office. We will walk around the installation made of components of the book, and listen to the stories by its maker Marjolijn Boterenbrood regarding the old and new Silk Roads and her pathways in and through Kyrgyzstan. 

Resonating with Unmapping Eurasia, our study line regarding Working for the Commons, the publication centers around the artist’s drawings over the old Soviet–atlas based on her journey towards and encounters in the country, and is made in the way of offering itself for further contribution and exchange with other fellows. This is to imagine a new contemporary Silk Road over other current infrastructure projects that expand in the territory. The book also contains essays by art historian Renée Borgonjen and artist and geographer Nikolay Smirnov.