Travesías (Crossings): Chile - Asia Pacific comprises the curatorship, management and production of a series of bilateral visual arts exhibitions between Chile and APEC member cultures, to be carried out in a period initially established as five years (2005 - 2010), which would be entrusted to the MAC.

This implies that the works of art sent to Chile from abroad would be showcased at the MAC in Santiago, while those sent abroad from Chile would be exhibited by the network of Centers and Museums of Contemporary Art of each participating APEC Economy.

It should be noted that the overall curatorial guideline of the exhibitions, established by the MAC, contemplates the work of artists concerned with "expressing the great changes that have taken place in their cultures, from a historical and macro-social perspective as well as in people's daily life". However, the selection of artists from participating economies will be responsibility of the Museum of Contemporary Art or the Art Center of each invited Economy. In the case of the Chilean sample, the selection of artists will be responsibility of a Curatorial Committee determined by the MAC.

Along with the exhibitions, the MAC will organize conferences and publish catalogues to contextualize the artworks exhibited and the cultural background of them. For this purpose it will invite the presentation of papers that -from the analysis of the latest contemporary art production in each economy - portray the original culture, the cultural and social changes, significant historical events; memory and present times.

The first showcase of the "Travesías (Crossings): Chile - Asia Pacific" project has been programmed for November 2005, and would include a selection of Chilean art to be exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in the Republic of Korea.

For the selection of artworks and artists to participate in this first stage, the MAC invited the Art Historians and Academics Guillermo Machuca and Soledad Novoa, whom along with Francisco Brugnoli, Director of the MAC, will form the curatorship team.

A schedule of the stages to be implemented follows, including the APEC member Economies with which a schedule has already been agreed on: the Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China.

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