Spatioanalysis is a tool for reframing public space by intervening into the dynamics of the collective spatial unconscious, and for it's final goal it has to subvert the 'spontaneous' reproduction of structures of signification, domination and legitimation, embodied in a spatial order given at a certain micro level. Being a theory in practice, an interventionist theory, it commences with locally specific analyses of the libidinal circuits between subjects, the society and space, looking for specific loci of mediation between them, in order to act on altering certain minor habitual rituals of the users of a given spatial structure. Artistic interventions into the physical space of the city are based on questioning ways in which different layers of socially produced spaces are getting to be sedimented in a specific site, their subsequent desedimentation, exposure of the present but unnoticeable features of the respective site, and alterations of the ways how it is publicly perceived and used. Divisions and stratification of urban structures into zones allocated to homogenous social groups are already, in the globalized cities of today, being reframed and renegotiated in more complex socio-spatial groupings and layerings of their presence in the urban realm. Those contemporary art practices which focus on context-based work in socius build on those subcultural processes in order to provide the public realm with new open zones, liable to be constantly reinhabited by different social groups.

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