Silk Road

Greco Buddhism > People from Europe left behind influenced culture and style from that era.
Silk Road stone carving
Historic networks, showing ancient connections
Wale communication network > mediating between human and the unknown heavenly (?)
Nam June Paik, considering deers as predecessors of whales
- Deer eating magic mushrooms, shamans drinking their urine and going on a trip as well > connections to Santa Clause
- Deer after eating mushrooms jumping back to the water and becoming a whale
- Larger connections and correlations between humans and animals

Silk Road

Trade roads covering vast parts of the norther hemisphere
Several routes, decentralised networks with different merchants traveling on them
Black death originating in East Asia reaching Europe around 14th century

Belt and Road Initiative

global infrastructure network initiative from China
Expansion of West Trade Routes through Pakistan > historical conflicts with e.g. India that led to this development, which is important for oil import from Iran

Zheng He, traveling as far as Africa > figure being evoked when talking about the BRI today

Everything under heaven

Power asymmetry > though everybody got what they wanted in the trade business, efficient also in peace keeping
Everything hold in balance, so trade was possible

Port in Hong Kong

Opium export by England, produced in India and sold through Hong Kong to Mainland China
Lin Ze Xu > burned the port, which started the opium war, statue in China Town as a symbol of an early drug adversary

Chinese Market

Silk, Tea, Porcelain > desired goods in Europe
China did not want anything from Europe (except silver, gold)
Huge deficit in trade debts between Britain and England > Opium as a product for the British to enter the Chinese market
Notion of technology/big data in China <> Europe
Advancement of AI in China for applications like medicine
Will Hong Kong become a role model for other Chinese ports and loose its relevance?
Schizophrenic situation: Hong Kong being the most capitalist city opposed to communist Mainland China

Art Project