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ItemGlimpses of cosmopolitanism in the hospitality of artPAPASTERGIADIS, 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.
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ItemMarina Fokidis speaks with Nikos Papastergiadis: towards a metalanguage of geographyPAPASTERGIADIS, NIKOS ; Fokidis, Maria ( 2006-04)Having trained on the crossroads of social sciences and humanities, Nikos Papastergiadis is a theorist on art’s ability to penetrate in the field of everyday life. He has written texts on the open-ended issues of home, identity, migration and globalization approaching his research through the canon of art practice and cultural theory. His latest book from River Oram Press, “Spatial Aesthetics (Art, Place and the Everyday), “ Focuses on the ways artists relate to urban spaces and engage other people, both within local and global networks.