How to use art, design and visual communication tools to unpack geopolitical identities? From this question, artists/designers from Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA) and Michigan State University (MSU) are creating new forms of exchange, challenging borders of language, politics, geography, technology and time-scale to use as points of departure.
In opening of this collaboration, two opposing names were given to the exchange. From Palestine: “Non-Geographic, Non-Political Dialogue” and from Michigan: “Critical Geopolitics in Collaborative Practices.” Immediately the desire to make non-political art clashed with the importance of addressing the poignant positionalities of the collaborators in relation to one another.
In opening of this collaboration, two opposing names were given to the exchange. From Palestine: “Non-Geographic, Non-Political Dialogue” and from Michigan: “Critical Geopolitics in Collaborative Practices.” Immediately the desire to make non-political art clashed with the importance of addressing the poignant positionalities of the collaborators in relation to one another.