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Endi TUPJA (Fellow) in conversation with Diana MALAJ (activist, lawyer, cultural organizer) and Ronald QEMA (journalist, activist)

The constant making and unmaking of home | c ́berja dhe berja e vazhdueshme e ndjesise se shtepiseIn the context of her Fellowship project <a href="https://www.buchsenhausen.at/en/fellow/endi-tupja/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hard-Boiled, Contained, Evaporated!</a>, Endi TUPJA has invited <a href="https://www.buchsenhausen.at/en/person/diana-malaj/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Diana MALAJ</a> and <a href="https://www.buchsenhausen.at/en/person/ronald-qema/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ronald QEMA</a> to talk about the construction of home, personal identity and belonging. Referring to Homi K. Bhabha’s “the unhomely” as a realm of non-belonging, the talk aims to consider the self as unsituated and constantly confronted with unanswered questions. These questions affect both practical and spiritual aspects where the self is exiled and the home is exiled too. Exiled in the wish to become. Exiled in the impossibility to become. Exiled in the postponement of becoming. Both journeys of internal (national Albanian) and diasporic migration will be discussed and contextualized.<a href="https://www.buchsenhausen.at/en/fellow/endi-tupja/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Endi Tupja</a> and her guests will draft an urban archeology of lost spaces and explore the memory of the home/bathroom as a memory of the self. How does growing up in post-dictatorial contexts inform one‘s existence in the inheritance of repression affecting the spaces we inhabit and live in? An archeology of objects and specific design tropes can be both nostalgic and repressive. The friction of these sentiments creates a tension invested in the practice of recognizing repression and accepting the inevitable comfort of what was once known as familiar. How is this articulated in the diasporic journey in search of the traces of one&#x27;s childhood home, a home so quickly dismembered and so quickly nostalgicized?Diana Malaj: Looking back on the nowThe Laboratory of Urban Anthropology (LAU) is an initiative that aims to create a dialogue platform about the arrival in a new land and its transformation into an urban space, giving the primary voice to the newcomers and the “natives”. LAU is a collaboration between the collective ATA (Them) and the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies in Tirana, Albania. The main topics of the Lab are home, the arrival, and the death/mourning rituals. During the presentation, Diana will elaborate on how the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology is organized and the synergies it creates with the community of Kamza. What traces are left behind for the community, and what is the relationship between scientific research and first-person community research?Ronald Qema: Finding a movie about home*It takes more than 23 years to build a house. At least in the case of the Qema family who needed that much time to somehow make themselves feel at home in Kamëz, where they moved in 1994. Seven thousand Italian lira were turned into steel and concrete in 1999, and many more were invested later. Yet no inside-bathroom was built until circa 2010. The kids hitting puberty brought the uncompromising need for an intimate space for personal hygiene. How did the lady of the house deal with this (dis)continuity? And what does it mean to remember the past present of being homed?THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. You can either participate in the event on-site in Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen or follow the event online, via Zoom and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/579406520861141" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>. You will receive the Zoom link after registering via Eventbrite.* Trigger warning: Depiction of animal cruelty/animal death in the context of a ritual sacrifice in videoImage: Workshop in Kamza, Albania, by “Laboratori Antropologjokik Urban” (Urban Anthropological Lab). Photo: Nikolas Pipero / Grupi ATA

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