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This new publication, Muntadas Media Architecture Projects anarchive 8—a book and a web-based project—explores five series of works that bring together significant projects reflecting Muntadas’s artistic approach since 1999, both in terms of the methods employed and the range of questions raised: On Translation, The Construction of Fear, About Academia, Asian Protocols, and Strategies of Displacement. The artist has taken the metaphor of the iceberg as his starting point. The visible part offers a journey through the projects as they are presented to the public. The hidden part focuses on the methodology of the projects, a central theme in Muntadas’s practice, whose critical perspective is informed by observation, investigation and fieldwork. It comprises three levels: the concept: notes, preparatory drawings, and extracts from interviews with the artist; the process: stages and methods of research, production and installation of the projects, including 20 original interviews with collaborators; the local and broader context: the city, the architecture and activities of the exhibition venue, as well as the social, political, geographical, historical, cultural and technical conditions that accompany the development of the projects.