My Life My Life My Life in the Sunshine

OMAPA

Illustration and proof of the laws of motion

Building Affects, Body in/of the Archive

This is not America, ma’am

Practices of Care

Radio Parazit

Debris

Sonic Knowing

DIASPORIC IMAGINARIES

Semilla (Balkan Piperita)

Potential Choreography for Counterprompting

Physics of Entropy

Eyes Closed

O rio corre mais rápido em direção ao fim 

evth that remains to be lived

Liquid Ecologies

Always Middles

The Cut 

Composite Sites

Brick, Dust, Matter

MATERIALITIES OF/FROM THE EDGE

PRЕHODAT

преходът = a change of place – (translation)
This stage takes translation as a vector that projects diaspora into the Balkan space. It is a geographical movement from the outer edge of diasporic locales to the Balkans as a southeastern edge of Europe. Translation gestures towards displacement as an event initially catalyzed in 1989, and one that continues to occur to this day, especially having witnessed a resurgence in 2007 with Bulgaria’s entry into the EU. As a network of movement between the diasporic condition and “home,” translation is a process of continual displacement and “homing,” or the illusion thereof. This stage figures cultural, linguistic, and economic translation at two sites: the first, the arrival of Bulgarian diaspora on-site to their country of origin, and the second, diasporic residents within Bulgaria who do not consider themselves Bulgarian. This definition of passage can encompass geographic vectors, such as the Balkan mountains that characterize mobility across the region; infrastructural vectors such as broadband networks that have enabled a growing IT-sector of out-sourced labor; or, the Balkan airlines slot allocations that defined emigration patterns post-1989.

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