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The archive
contained pre-selected video material produced by artists and filmmakers
originating from and in most cases living in one of the countries on the
route. The 123 video works were compiled through a research within established
networks followed by direct interaction with artistic communities and
collaborations with regional institutions, including universities, media-labs
and art centres.
National and cultural limitations, given by geographical borderlines and
the assumption of different habitat with certain historical influences,
produce specific diversities in the visual coding of information. From
this point the requested visual material was chosen under consideration
of notions of cultural, social and political reality found in the fragment
of the particular society of origin.
In a following step the Archive was shown in the taxi as a mobile video
installation, during a tour over four months through the cities Cairo,
Beirut, Istanbul, Sofia, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Graz and
Vienna.
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