Socially Engaged? Better, Socially Married

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Georgia Kotretsos’s performance-talk announced a daring project by an anonymous colleague entitled Socially Engaged? Better, Socially Married! Offering to marry intelligent, creative individuals who wish to live, work and do research in Greece for a long period of time. Kotretsos playfully recited an open call for applications; three to five-year visas to be granted and after a two-month period, the individual would be divorced. This is a proposal to EU citizens as an editorial gesture: marriage should be more than a freely undertaken transaction, or simply grounded in the physical; it should encompass the civil and the intellectual attributes of ourselves. The project uses identity as a medium and EU rights as capital.