1. The secretariat will organise brainstorming sessions with partner institutes in these four countries. The secretariat and the partner institutes will invite distinguished figures in each country's art community to join the meeting. The aim of these meetings will be to select a representative theme unique to each participating country. This task should be completed by the 31st of January 2006. 2. While these meetings are taking place, interviews with art activists, critics, artists, and art-policy makers in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam will be carried out. 3. The secretariat will summarise four unique themes growing out of the four brainstorming sessions. 4. The secretariat, in cooperation with the partner institutes in each country, will organise mini-workshops to consider the chosen themes. The workshops will serve as a search operation for appropriate curators. The mini workshops should be completed by the 20th of May 2006. 5. After the mini workshops, the secretariat will be ready to appoint four curators from four countries, as well as an editor and a curatorial and exhibition manager [1] (Bangkok based). These appointments, which will be subject to approval by the RF, will be finalized not later than the 31st of May 2007. 6. Working closely with the secretariat, the manager will organise a first meeting in Bangkok during June 2007. In this meeting, the appointed curators will come together to consider the designated themes for the exhibition (as agreed upon with the secretariat), the lists of recommended artists (between 5 and 10 per curator), examples of selected artworks, choices of exhibition venues, the format for the travelling exhibition, brief outlines of articles for the exhibition catalogue, and plans for PR activities. The meeting will present opportunities for the curators to finalise a definite list of artists and to consider how to launch this intra-regional curatorial and exhibition project featuring four unique but related themes. The artists whose works are preferred will be informed after this first meeting. 7. The secretariat will transfer 60% of the curator's and artist's fees directly to their bank accounts. These artists will be required to create at least one piece of artwork specifically for this exhibition. 8. The manager will organise a second meeting in Bangkok during September 2007 in order to discuss and finalise the plans. 9. Each curator should produce a four page (size A-4) article based on the themes discussed. The articles should be in the curators’ original language and must also be translated into English. These articles, both the originals and the translations, must be sent to the manager by the 31st of October 2007. Along with the articles, the curators should provide suitable photographs, illustrations or other kinds of artwork for PR purposes. 10. The manager will forward the articles to the editor, who will complete the editing process by the 31st of December 2007. 11. The manager will transfer 60% of the total fees and remittances due to relevant PR persons/companies in all four countries by the 30th of November 2007. The manager will also produce a press release in five languages: Cambodian, English, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese. These announcements will be sent by post or emailed three months in advance as part of the promotional activities for the exhibitions across the Mekong region. 12. The publications (e.g., catalogues, postcards, and posters) will be printed during January 2008. 13. The manager will organise a third meeting in Bangkok during January 2008. 14. The administrator will transfer 60% of the total fee directly to the account of the designated exhibition venue in each country one-month prior to the exhibition. 15. The exhibition venues and the curators are responsible for unpacking, installing and repacking art pieces, and for arranging an opening reception. 16. The manager will travel to each location before the exhibition to ensure that the show is set up as agreed in the Bangkok meetings. The travelling exhibition will begin early in March 2008 and will finish by the end of June 2008. 17. The administrator will transfer the remaining 40% of the fees and remittances due curators, artists, venues, and PR persons/companies to their bank accounts after the completion of the project. 1In short, the manager. 1. Qualified curators will be selected through a process of mini workshops and interviews in the four cooperating countries. 2. Each curator will select artists who demonstrate critical and creative sensitivity toward the chosen theme or whose own original interests already relate intellectually to the theme. The manager is responsible, on appointment, for overseeing procedures, dealing with documents and for producing an accurate database of the human resources involved in the project. The manager is expected to facilitate communications within the project, and to make sure that deadlines are respected. In order to work closely throughout with the secretariat, the manager must be Bangkok-based. Curators are expected to cooperate among themselves via the manager. Their tasks include: 1. Planning the presentation of the works of their chosen artists 2. Producing an original text to accompany the exhibition and an English translation 3. Locating suitable art venues for the exhibition and presenting them to the other curators 4. Finding suitable local PR persons/companies and introducing them to the other curators 5 Coordinating with the selected local art venue and PR person/company responsible for the exhibition