Nanjing, China: Right now, 596 Acres’ signs and posters are included in Silk Road International, an exhibition by the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA) from March 4 to 31. The exhibit explores contemporary art practices from around the world that engage in political economy practices with both operation systems and ideologies.

From the Silk Road International Curator’s Statement:

“Whether it be ‘One Belt And One Road’ (OBOR) or the ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ (TPP), such strategies, practices and ideas, with their critical opposites, feed into production lines of reality and text. China continues to produce and to be present, floating between the Pacific Ocean and Western Paradise. At that moment, the RMB Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) had quietly been launched, covering the OBOR and TPP ports, and the RMB successfully entered into the Special Drawing Right (SDR). All kinds of Silk Roads were suddenly preregistered across the lands and seas and the international company rose to prominence…

“On a micro level, art activities show that the artists are increasingly conscious of their position and role in the framework of an economic system, which means their economic self-practice. On the one hand, artists consciously, or unconsciously, enter into closed systems which surround expos, biennales, museums, collections and galleries etc… placing them within a positive framework of internationalism. On the other hand, artists are trying to break free from the operation of this system, using their own alternative means to create an economic cycle, usually by being extremely individual, supplementary or microscopic in their operation – a micro-economy as a resistance to economy in art.”

Details are here: http://www.nuamuseum.org/en/prodetail.aspx?id=188