In the past twenty years, cities like Beirut, Cairo, and Ramallah have seen a proliferation of independent art schools which represents a significant shift in the landscape of art education. The research project takes these schools as a case study to examine the conditions that lead to the formation of para-institutional educational initiatives in the arts and their value and function within the cultural field in the Arab world.
The project was part of an annual show which articulates such stable or ephemeral translocal-ities in a hybrid, collectively-shaped format: a radio station and a cargo space.
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