Last week can be called Islamic fashion week: three events put on the news map the dress norms adopted…
The Memory Books of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop serve as a touchstones for contemplating collective memory in a time of mobility. They instantiate the evolving memory of a collective of serial migrant artists who share neither place of residence, national…
Living with the prospect of moving across international borders tends to make…
Last month, in the context of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop organized at the University of California, Riverside, I presented some thoughts on the nature of movement and migration in the digital age. When I think of movement, I often think of bodies moving — and…
Mi Tiempo, Mein Raum, My Map: Becoming a Serial Migrant
The participation in the different chapters of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop has changed my…
I was born in Romania and, in the past 20 years, I lived in 7 different countries. When I say lived, I mean anywhere between 1 and 4 years. the hardest question, and the most frequent, I am asked is: “Where are you from?” Recently I made up a standard answer: “I was born in Romania… and…
