Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles was an exchange exhibition of emerging artists beginning in 1989. It was conceived as an entirely independent intitative by two curators and two groups of artists who considered it ridiculous that their artistic exploration of each others’ cultures and of the outer world in general should be limited by any artificial barriers erected to divide them. United by their common conviction that the right of free expression is a natural precondition for any serious and responsible art production and brought together by their stubbornness and defiance, the American and Czechoslovak artists launched the exchange project and bore most of the financial isolationist cultural structures of then Stalinist Czechoslovakia.