This project explores the construction of "contemporary Arab art" as an object of study and the artistic circulations between the Middle East and the Maghreb, starting from the Palestinian (Ramallah) and Moroccan (Marrakech) cases. It questions the effect of artistic migrations on the forms of engagement of the actors, in relation to the revolutionary moments they are going through and the inclusion of these artistic practices in the public space. And, beyond questioning the tensions between politics and the market that underlie these art worlds, this research-creation will offer a critical perspective on the relevance of the definition of "contemporary Arab art". It will give rise to a multifaceted artistic work—a "performed ethnography"—, while questioning the contribution of methodological crossovers between artistic and ethnographic writing, to study the behind-the-scenes of contemporary art in the MENA region.