INDUSTRIAL: Silk Roads 3000

INDUSTRIAL: Silk Roads 3000 focuses on logistics, supply chains and global commodity flows. The starting point is the so-called ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, an intercontinental infrastructure project that China has been rolling out worldwide since 2013. It is also known as the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative or the ‘New Silk Road’. Duisburg and the Ruhr region are located at one end of it. Together with 23 artists from 16 countries, we journey along this new infrastructure of the global economy, which significantly shapes our lives without us really noticing it. The publication tells of the deserts traversed, the borders crossed, the jobs lost and gained, the containers unloaded. Globalisation is not abstract. It’s out there on the roads and tracks.

Following INDUSTRIAL on Tour (2013) and INDUSTRIAL (Research) (2014), INDUSTRIAL: Silk Roads 3000 (2026) is the third volume of the trilogy. This volume contains a comprehensive documentation of all the art works, as well as a photographic documentation of the exhibition.