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Glimpses of cosmopolitanism in the hospitality of art

PAPASTERGIADIS, NIKOS ( 2006-08)

In a video by the artist’s collective Stalker, a man points to a lake and claims it as his spiritual home. Following the man’s gesture Stalker identified the lake as being in Macedonia. No one can deny this man his Macedonian identity. However, after the ruins of a grand but short-lived empire, where is Macedonia? Or, rather, which State can claim to be the inheritor of the Macedonian heritage? These questions unsettled the conventional categories for identifying the location of scenes in a video that was part of a trans-national project called Via Egnatia.