As you go...the roads under your feet, towards the new future

As you go… the roads under your feet, towards the new future (2019–22) was a four-year curatorial research inquiry with partner cells based in Central Asia, China, the Balkans and East Africa that I initially developed in response to the geo-political framework of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This practice-based research teases out threads of interest: tensions between margins and centers, a balance between opacity and visibility, undervalued curatorial and artistic gestures, embracing failure as a learning process, proximity as a condition for knowledge production, and how these knowledges are disseminated locally and globally. These questions emerged as core to the curatorial ethics, responsibilities, and sensibilities engaged in this research.