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AarPaar is an artist initiated public art project between Indian and Pakistan.
In AarPaar 1 which took place in year 2000, artists from Karachi & Mumbai, made work which was swapped between the two cities and shown in public spaces : roadside eating places , paan shops etc. The idea of intervening in the city was to encourage an alternative audience, extend viewership of art, to not exclusively an “art” audience, but incidental viewing and sharing of work by artists, in places where spontaneous interaction between people occurs. In an attempt to extend this dialogue, AarPaar 2 took place similtaneouly in Mumbai and Karachi in July 2002 in which ten artists from each city developed single colour work which were exchanged across the two countries via email to be printed locally and inserted into public spaces : by plastering on city walls or distributing these as folded handouts. A short, targeted, intervention: less ‘incidental’ , less ‘subtle’ than before, more obtrusive. AarPaar 3 continues in its sixth year, when this time artists videos are being shown in open air public spaces as well as educational institutes such as schools and colleges.