Dear Fotini & friends,

this is not a reply per se. The last time Fotini and I met in Thessaloniki a few weeks ago I promised I’d post a comment on the website so here it is. Congrats to you all on the website and your creative projects -past, present and future. I love the mix of words and images, theory and practice. What I find most interesting and inspiring is the way your projects (at least the ones I have read about) highlight and make art out of daily activities and moments of everyday life. I think Fotini called it “the mundane and the unmappable” when she wrote about one of her numerous projects and these words have stayed with me since. So thank you for that!

All the best,
I.

ismini! se euxaristoume polu.. xairomai pou kapoios parakolouthei kati apo auta pou moirazomaste se auto to blog, simainei polla auto.. euxomai na vriskeis ki esi pantote mikres xares sta kathimerina, ta mikra kai ta megala.. xxx

“It is important here that the notion of the ‘outside’ is expressed in many European languages by a word that means ‘at the door’ (fores in Latin is the door of the house, thyrathen in Greek literally means ‘at the threshold’). The outside is not another space that resides beyond a determinate space, but rather, it is the passage, the exteriority that gives it access — in a word, it is its face, its eidos.

The threshold is not, in this sense, another thing with respect to the limit; it is, so to speak, the experience of the limit itself, the experience of being-within an outside. This ek-stasis is the gift that singularity gathers from the empty hands of humanity.”

— Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community (1993)

[…] for this pedagogical experience and its intensity. Rather, the tide subsides and we pass through a threshold, the switch point of which occurs as one walks through the door, solitary, belongings in all senses […]