FROM DIRT TO DUST Exhibition & Documentary Screening - Big Air Lab
Carhartt Work In Progress - FROM DIRT TO DUST Exhibition
17-31.10
VERNISAGE & SKATE SESSION 17.10
from 4:30 PM with Carhartt team riders Joseph Biais, Phil Zwijsen and Igor Fardin!
Screening of OUT OF STEPPE from 9 PM
Bottomsfly DJ set
Show cooking with Chef Francesco Babini
Back in 2004, a phalanx of skateboarders decided to go skate a giant skate- park they had seen a photo of, in the heart of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Once they reached, only to discover that the structure had been razed three weeks prior, the real adventure began.
The resulting book (Dirt Ollies) and film (Mongolian Tyres)*depicted the trip—an epic rendition of two worlds colliding, and of a country about to go through a drastic change.
Ten years later, Mongolia has become one the quickest growing countries in the world, thanks to its underground treasures (coal, copper, rare metals, uranium, etc.), both blessing and curses with tales of anarchic growth and profound society changes.
From the dirt roads of 2004 to the construction sites’ dust of 2014, this decade of (r)evolution fully deserved a new book and a film. We decided to use what we knew, skateboarding, to monitor the transformation from a vernacular angle. And so, ten years later, bags were packed again for an hete- roclitic crew of skateboarders, photographers, writers, architects. Mongolia, here we went again...
FROM DIRT TO DUST
Ten years after, skateboarders, photographers and an architect return to Mongolia to marvel at its landscapes, cities, and drainage ditches.With skateboarding as an uncanny reading grid, the disorientated transplant experienced the creeping westernization of a once powerful Empire.
OUT OF STEPPE
Trough Stephen Roe’s lens, a heterogeneous crew addresses
the contrast of skateboarding from the infinite steppes to forgotten Mongolian towns, and incidentally discovers an urban blooming scene riding the saddle of a galloping Globalization.
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