What if home is no longer there?

Poetic reflections by Gyonne Goedhoop, Shari Maduro, Nagila Muller, Veronika Babayan and Anita Hrnić

Video, A Tapestry of a Diaspora

In collaboration with storyteller R V D I N A , Gyonne Goedhoop, Shari Maduro and Nagila Muller reflect on what diasporic life means to them. Their words and gestures are interwoven with passages from a live ‘Tapestry of a Diaspora’ event with artists and educators Veronika Babayan and Anita Hrnić . What does it mean to be far removed from (the feeling of) home? Some of us can return to a geographical place that we also call home, but what if this place is no longer there? How do we relate to such ruptures? How do we remember and honor our memories?

In the video you hear Veronika Babayan recite from her meta-autobiographical memoir ‘Dear Mother: Fluid Mechanism of Belonging’, 2020.