Country: Syria

Title: Soundtrack to Minecraft Mausoleum

Length: 3 minutes 57 seconds

Producer: Hungaraton Records

Year: 1997

Description: 'Song for Lenin' from the CD 'Best of Communism, selection of revolutionary songs'

Background: Minecraft Mausoleum is an online video game version of 'mausoleum for a president'.  Syrian president Bashar Al Assad is known to be a computer geek. He used to be head of the 'Syrian Computer Society' and opened up his country to the internet at the beginning of the millennium. In the face of the Arab Spring's general enthusiasm for online tools, Minecraft Mausoleum utilises Minecraft - an online building game - as context and medium to present a model of a Mausoleum for Al Assad.

Country: Jordan

Title: Background sound from K is for Kompressor

Length: 2  minutes 56 seconds

Producer: Tom Bogaert

Year: 2010

Description: An afternoon in Amman featuring, among other things, a truck blowing its horn, an airplane and helicopter flying overhead, wind and above all, the gas cars and their ubiquitous melody.

Background: K is for Kompressor (KfK) is a filmed Hollywood-style sign featuring the letter 'K' from the Mercedes-Benz 'kompressor' logo. In this piece the artist further explores intersections between enlightened absolutism and badges used by Mercedes-Benz for their supercharged engines.

Country: Iraq

Title: The Plane that Flew into the Empire State Building

Length: 3 minutes 3 seconds

Producer: Universal Studios

Year: 1945

Description: On the 28th of July, 1945 an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. The plane hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.  Fourteen people were killed.

Background: At the League of Nations San Remo conference in April 1920, the British Empire committed itself to state-building in Iraq. It was state-building by imperialistic outsiders ('Empire state-building'): an external intervention into a foreign territory that attempted to legitimise itself in terms of betterment of the population it claimed to be helping.

Country: Lebanon

Title: Background sound from Pavement Popsicles

Length: 4 minutes 3 seconds

Producer: Siska

Year: 2011

Description: August in Hamra, Beirut

Background: Pavement Popsicles - made in collaboration with Siska - shows Tom Bogaert fixing broken glass curb markers by placing exact copies of the markers made out of ice in the gaps created by the missing lenses. The ice versions of the lenses are modelled after original lenses obtained from the Municipality of Beirut after a five-day quest deep inside the hot and humid core of the city's management system.

Country: Palestine

Title: Soundtrack to And Did Those Feet

Length: 3 minutes 52 seconds

Producer: Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Year: 1974

Description: Live version of anthem 'Jerusalem,' by Emerson, Lake and Palmer's on their 1974 'Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ... Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer' album.

Background: And Did Those Feet is a site-specific installation for Al Hoash gallery in Jerusalem.   Tom Bogaert projects 35mm slides of Emerson, Lake and Palmer on slices of 'Siniora Al Quds' chicken luncheon meat accompanied by their 1974 live version of 'Jerusalem' on vinyl.