China in 86 Days / Michael Aschauer (AT)


Michael Aschauer's starting point for his on-going project is a striking memory of sitting in the Trans-Siberian railway on his way eastwards to China to spend the next four months in Asia for an artistic research, while reading about the influx of refugees coming west to his home in Austria in 2015. His attempt is to question and redefine the voluntary (digital) nomadism as opposed to being a forced refugee. Accordingly, he is processing and mapping a digital archive based on this approximately 18000 km of land-based Trans Eurasian crossing and potential successional movements.