"The Shaking Hands & Making Conflicts symposium will be held at Färgfabriken, Centre for Contemporary Art & Architecture, April 23-26, 1998. It is produced on the initiative of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Färgfabriken, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Swedish Institute. It is held in the installation/theatre play "Dabloids" by the Russian artist Leonid Tischkov. The symposium aims to create a lasting network - a Partnership for Culture - for artists and intellectuals, with special emphasis upon the young, first and foremost from the Baltic Sea countries, together with Byelorussia and the Ukraine. 0. "The Dabloids are a sort of symbol for each person's mental luggage", says the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov.

ArtMedia Center, TV-gallery, Moscow. 1997

1993, Duke University Museum of Art Duram NC,USA