This anthology collects previously published seminal writings alongside new essays written especially for the present volume. The work on the publication began when we initiated a series of public symposia on extraterritoriality in various global locations in the framework of the ongoing artistic platform Exterritory Project. These events opened an indispensable discursive platform for us on the concept of extraterritoriality and instigated some of the contributions now included in the book.

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... first symposium, held in Paris in May 2012, was organized in collaboration with the Kadist Art Foundation and the Evans Foundation. The second symposium took place in Jaffa in May 2012. The third event was hosted by Beit HaGefen Culture Center in Haifa in December 2013, while the fourth was organized in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which also hosted the event in March 2015. We would like to express our deep gratitude to the writers whose inspiring essays are republished here as well as to those who generously agreed to engage in this effort. It is with the great help of the contributors, the hosting institutions, and the project's various supporters that this volume was made possible; we are grateful for their encouraging willingness to take part and aid. Our special thanks go to Sandra Terdjman, then-Director of the Kadist Art Foundation and currently Co-Founder and Director of Council, for her keen involvement in organizing the first and third symposia and for her valuable and enduring faith in the project. We are also thankful for the dedicated help of Émilie Villez, current Kadist Director and Curator Léna Monnier of the Kadist Art Foundation as well as to Anne Davidian, Head of the Paris Office of the Evens Foundation. In addition, we thank Curator Jelle