Eurasian Steps-The First Movement

This event was a public program organized in conjunction with the artwork Eurasian Steps–The First Movement by Unmapping Eurasia, presented in the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên. Designed in the form of a “walking exhibition,” the program includes a journey on foot from the SeMA Nam June Paik Memorial House to the SeMA Seosomun Main Building.

Unmapping Eurasia is a trans-regional cultural project through which artists raise questions on the territorial borders and the socio-political and cultural division across the Eurasian region to create new forms of relationships and communities. Initiated by “Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons,” Unmapping Eurasia is a long-term project that has been and will be collaborating with diverse partners. The purpose of the project is to research the physical powers imposed across the Eurasian region, activities, organizations, social infrastructures, resources, and culture, and to share the researchers and practitioners’ experiences, future directions, and potential predictions about the regional situations with others.

Eurasian Steps–The First Movement is a kind of report presentation on Unmapping Eurasia’s first journey (from Utrecht through Athens to Seoul). They restructure the references of their project, co-works, and records and present them on an online platform (www.unmappingeur. asia) and in the exhibition, so that the audiences can experience the ways in which Unmapping Eurasia moves, locates, and maps.

Unmapping Eurasia’s Eurasian Steps–The First Movement, was supported by DutchCulture (center for international cooperation), sponsored by NEDxPO2018 (the Dutch cultural program for the Winter Olympics 2018) of the Netherlands Embassy in South Korea and developed in collaboration with the Dutch Art Institute.