How to use art, design and visual communication tools to unpack geopolitical identities? From this question, artists/designers from Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA) and Michigan State University (MSU) are creating new forms of exchange, challenging borders of language, politics, geography, technology and time-scale to use as points of departure. In opening of this collaboration, two opposing names were given to the exchange. From Palestine: “Non-Geographic, Non-Political Dialogue” and from Michigan: “Critical Geopolitics in Collaborative Practices.” Immediately the desire to make non-political art clashed with the importance of addressing the poignant positionalities of the collaborators in relation to one another. These works were created in a liminal space between two groups entangled within the reality of an occupation. The MSU Global Travel Registry classifies Palestine simply as “Unknown.” Inevitability, this act invents a new set of borders between what is “unknown” and what is acknowledged. This systemic erasure represent this exchange more than either of the names had created initially. — Collaborators: Abdallah Ghassan, Ally Beshouri, Alyeea Turner, Areej Ashhab, Aryeh DW, Ashley Miller, Jaime Davidson, Joan Bambery, Lauren Mirecki, Lubna Araj, Mahdi Baraghithi, Mehrdad Sedaghat, Michael Jabreen, Salem Shoubaki, Noora Said, Safaa Khatib, Tala Zeitawi. Organizers: Asem Naser, Deborah Margolis and Qais Assali