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Crossborders
Cross borders Art Tour,
Beirut, Ramallah, Nahariya, 2007,
mixed media
Mediterranean Countries) in Lebanon- Israel- Palestine. In each location, we stayed for ten days and collaborated with four local artists. According to the concept of “The Cross Border Arts Project aims to use artistic expression to reflect the situation of a society coming out of a major conflict, and to encourage social engagement and dialogue through participation in cultural activities.” But in reality, it was dealing with many difficulties in the region and try to coop with the local artists and daily conditions were complicated. Although artists made a series of events, public interventions, exhibitions, participatory workshops with different groups of social groups in the Tour afterwards they could not show any work in Europe. This phrase tells about the role of the artists in the project. Then the works were produced for the publication.