Dreams are made of porcelain (Really, Really)

While talking about experiences of transition, this essay itself is in a state of transition. It is moving and traveling. Starting as a lecture performance at the Sandberg Instituut, different parts of this essay have been read in Amsterdam. Next to the event "Relatively European Relatively Civilized" organized by the Second Thoughts collective at W139, it was read at the "Decolonial Futures Symposium" at Framer Framed and then traveled back to the Sandberg Instituut. Each time, fragments were replaced, characters added. According to the artist Philippine Hoegen, performance can be described as a form of versioning.With this in mind, this essay is also a performance–a set of tools searching for a language on how to speak about things that have gone missing, hovering around the question: What, really, can a single object tell us when it is brought out of context and if there is no person who can tell you a story about it? Published in in Stedelijk Studies Journal #12: On Diaspora