In the age of glocal culture, Niek van de Steeg is reinventing the notion of Site-Specific Art, taking into account the many different topographical coordinates of the place where he works. [...] An assertion of the intrinsic freedom of artistic activity, understood as a place of intellectual and not just formal production. An assertion of the need to rub up against contemporary systems of representation and authority. An assertion of the possibility of the artist to conduct himself other than as a servile illustrator of the powers of the present day and age. The challenge is nothing less than that of a reappropriation by art of its role as a symbolic counter-force in society.