Aldir Polymeris' Auto-Retro-Integration. Eine Chronik

Research / short piece, 2016/17

In the form of a tongue-in-cheek-experiment, Trop cher to share tests the concept of "integration" in reverse. In search of Aldir's Greek roots, Trop cher to share asked Greeks living in Zurich to support Aldir's cultural reintegration. Aldir's "Way to Greek" is a search for what forms a human being - and what is made of it. Aldir Polymeris' Auto-Retro-Integration. Eine Chronik is an exploration of the constructedness of national identity, its instrumentalisation and politicization; and of the obsession of western societies with origins and "the foreigner" as an ambivalent projection surface of both, fears and desires.