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Both Sides of the Curtains is the eighth edition of Meeting Points 鈥� a multidisciplinary contemporary arts project that takes place every two years in several cities in Europe and the Arab World. Meeting Points invites curators to imagine and interrogate models for the production and presentation of contemporary arts, developed through their research in the Arab World. Inspired by German artist Oskar Schlemmer鈥檚 experiments with art at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, Meeting Points aims at inventing ways for new kinds of art to be created and shared between artists and publics. Many of Schlemmer鈥檚 ideas at the school were developed through social events where costumes and choreographies were put to practical use and tested. It is this logic of considering art as a form of enthusiastic developing and sharing of ideas鈥攁n interaction that creates a community鈥攖hat is shaping Meeting Points into a space where participants move along together on an expedition through different sites and times. 

At La Loge Both Sides of the Curtain unfolds in letters, situations, objects, meanings, and sounds. What began in Cairo, lands now in Brussels, and moves on to Beirut for the spring. A conversation between many bodies, minds, cities, and times, Both Sides of the Curtain behaves like an improvisation though it鈥檚 also a score.  This slippage and arbitrariness 鈥� an everyday cause for invention for an artist in the Arab World 鈥� makes for an artistic production that thrives on instability and masters elasticity.