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Public Space With a Roof (PSWAR) is an artists’ initiative founded in 2003
in Amsterdam whose projects were designed for their own project space
in the former Film Academy in Amsterdam (www.pswar.org). PSWAR is a
collaboration of the artists Tamuna Chabashvili (Georgia, 1978), Adi
Hollander (Belgium, 1976) and theoretician Vesna Madzoski (Serbia, 1976)
whose activities go beyond the usual notions of
artists-as-social-activists, artists-as-producers, and
artists-as-curators, blurring the borders between many roles assumed to be
taken by the present-day artists. What differentiates this space from the
other artists’ initiatives is the specific extension of the artistic practice
visible in their every project.

PSWAR projects are based on research and include several levels:
creating installation as a framework for the other parts of the project,
turning installation into exhibition, inclusion of other artworks as
readymades,
discussion and formulation of new questions. This way, PSWAR projects
offer a specific kind of a journey that begins with the starting questions
and ends with a new set of questions to be further investigated in the
next project.