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	<link>http://www.almostreal.org</link>
	<description>ALMOSTWeb is a living web depository for ALMOSTREAL - an experimental project about artistic collaboration and exchange as an advanced form of intercultural practice. ALMOSTREAL is initiated and supported by the European Cultural Foundation.</description>
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		<title>Postponement of AlmostReal workshops and public presentations in Beirut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the extremely dire situation in Beirut, curator Tarek Atoui and AlmostReal have postponed the workshop &#8216;Bytes &#038; Pieces&#8217; and the 5 presentations of video installations that were originaly scheduled to take place in Beirut at the end of May. We very much hope that the unrest will diminish and that the politcial turmult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/05/14/postponement-of-beirut-almostreal-event/</link>
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		<title>Hosting between Novi sad and Hong Kong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last activity of AR4 involves a collaboration in &#8216;hosting&#8217; between the black house of kuda.org, CK13, and the newly established Blue House in Hong Kong. The idea is to set up a network of cultural places around the world that actively push for new public domains: places for hosting social interaction, deviant social thoughts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/04/23/hosting-between-novi-sad-and-hong-kong/</link>
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		<title>ALMOSTweb design &#038; development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A workshop was held 30 September, 1-2 October 2006 in Rotterdam to further develop ALMOStweb, ALMOSTREAL&#8217;s online archive-in-progress. To develop a more clear conceptual structure and to organise information of ALMOSTREAL into an inspiring structural framework. 
The function of ALMOSTweb is to both facilitate and open up a complex and experimental project. Yet like ALMOSTREAL, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/04/23/almostweb-design-development/</link>
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		<title>Funding Intimacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fifth and final stage of AlmostReal will end with a public event in Stockholm, hosted and co-organised by Konsthall C. 
The purpose of the public event is to find out where the land lies in terms of funding for contemporary art within a European context. What are the proportions between public and private funding, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/04/23/funding-intimacy-2/</link>
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		<title>Past Future Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first action of stage 4 which took place after the Blue House had already proposed activities in October 2006 but actually happened before the official start of stage 4 in January 2007. In most funding agreements however it is unusual that money is given for an action that took place prior to the offical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/04/07/past-future-funding/</link>
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		<title>Hospitality for What is to Come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to ALMOSTREAL&#8217;s invitation to propose aa project for stage 4 on hospitality, Jeanne put together her proposal and departure points in the text &#8216;Hospitality for What is to Come&#8216;. This text links the ancient notion of hospitality to the most pressing contemporary global phemomena of migration and movement of people, and the effects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/04/07/hospitality-for-what-is-to-come-2/</link>
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		<title>Exploring the Schmooze factor</title>
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		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/04/06/exploring-the-schmooze-factor/</link>
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		<title>5 interdisciplinary installations in Beirut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The support for second stage of AlmostReal is being continued a project developed by the young composer and independent curatorTarek Atoui.
Tarek organised a workshop in May 2007 (in partnership with SHAMS arts centre and Ana Lindt Foundation) where he introduced  interdisciplinary cross overs between video, digital and acoustic mediums for artists to make their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/03/25/5-interdisciplinary-installations-in-beirut/</link>
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		<title>Alliance of art and politics in the making of transnational public spheres</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the discussions during first getogether zoomed into the potential for collaborations between art and other political spheres. The political sphere can learn from art to  create new and urgently needed public spheres. The cultural field across Europe is potentially, if not already, a transnational public sphere in the making. The small spheres [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/03/21/alliance-of-art-and-politics-in-the-making-of-transnational-public-spheres/</link>
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		<title>Ashkal Alwan Proposal for Video Production in Beirut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on the first impressions gathered during the brief stay in Beirut and the second getogether with Beirut-based cultural practitioners, AlmostReal asked curator and Ashkal Alwan director Christine Tohmé to make a proposal to realise a project for a public venue in Beirut. 
Christine Tohmé put forward a proposal  for developing a platform for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2008/03/20/601/</link>
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