"Travesías (Crossings) (MAC) Santiago, Chile

Travesías (Crossings): Chile - Asia Pacific is an innovative bilateral visual arts exchange project fostered by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, based on Article 10 of UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (adopted by the 31st session of its General Conference, held in Paris on 02 November 2001). The latter stipulates the importance of reinforcing the creative and diffusion capabilities of culture at world level, considering the current imbalance in the flow and exchange of cultural goods at international level, and with the purpose of allowing all countries, "particularly the developing ones and those in transition to development, to establish viable and competitive cultural industries at both domestic and international levels".

Travesías (Crossings): Chile - Asia Pacific comprises the curatorship, management and production of a series of bilateral visual arts exhibitions between Chile and APEC member cultures, to be carried out in a period initially established as five years (2005 - 2010), which would be entrusted to the MAC.

This implies that the works of art sent to Chile from abroad would be showcased at the MAC in Santiago, while those sent abroad from Chile would be exhibited by the network of Centers and Museums of Contemporary Art of each participating APEC Economy.