Lado Darakhvelidze is a Georgian multimedia artist living in the Netherlands. In his work he deals primarily with the topic of the media and their social and political impact on the public. His residency stay at SPACE Residency Lab is entitled Citizen Journal: Ideal Newspaper. It is apart of an open series realized in many other European countries in which the artist in co-operation with local volunteers conducts a probe into the Slovak internet in terms of the information media and their self-reflection.

Economic globalization simultaneously leads to a reshaping of cross-national economic integration at different scales, such as transnational economic development areas or new forms of regionalisation that challenge the classical divisions of the Mediterranean. Here I concentrate on the borderland sites of Southern European migration.

During the last few decades of the neoliberal-imperial globalisation process, social relations have been fundamentally transformed. Neoliberalism was never a purely market-driven process but also a shaping of other social relations and institutions, especially of the state. The state, private corporations, public discourses but also many aspects of everyday life were reoriented towards economic efficiency and international competitiveness. Aspects such as (re-) distribution or social and/or international solidarity played scarcely any role.

It is surely no coincidence that the word Atlantis first appears in the context of a dialogue namely that of  Plato's Timeaus and Critias – and nearly two and half thousand years later we are still talking in and of the same literary form of dialogue. Perhaps, the only but greatest mystery then is that the notion of why Atlantis "continues to float across the human imagination and the far horizon of the modern world". For what is a dialogue?

What happened in 1989? This year almost every day and everywhere there are memorials for the historical events 20 years ago. Communist polit bureaus and central committees collapsed back upon themselves like card houses, governments where dispossessed, political systems vanished and lastly whole states disappeared. “A centenary is to be deselected” as British historian Timothy Garton Ash titled his report out of the centres of Europe.