Postcolonial Matters: Between political gestures and poetical writings

I was born in Naples. The family’s stories and the stories of heroes and heroines told as a fairytale, have been, for me, a gift given by my parents and by who supported my childhood. To invent other worlds with these matters was my passion: when I played with Lego and Barbies I used to translate my visions into practice; this habit became an ability. When I grew up, I decide to materialize this ability in a path of study and training. I studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Naples and became a scenographer; I studied Philosophy and I never graduated; I worked in the theatre and cinema for several years; I left Naples for a city with much more opportunities for working with ‘fiction’, on the set and on the stage. Few years ago, I returned to Naples; I became an artist and after studying body philosophy I became a yoga practitioner and a teacher. There is difference between fiction and vision. To be an artist means to imagine: to go beyond any vision, to look for cracks, raptures, to illuminate obscure and insignificant particles, to collect marks and traces – so I can say I am a researcher.

She is an independent researcher, whose activity focuses on sonic- and cyber-cultures of the black diaspora; critical race theory and post-representation; media theory from a post-colonial perspective; museums, archives and art-working practices in the context of the contemporary global migrations. In 2014- 15, she was a non-stipendiary Affliated Fellow at the ICI Berlin (Germany). In 2012-14, she was Appointed Researcher & Project Assistant within the EU Project “MeLa* - European Museums in an age of Migrations” (FP7) at the Università “L’Orientale” (Naples, Italy), where she also taught “Media and Cultural Studies”. She was Visiting Doctoral Fellow at Goldsmiths London (2009) as the winner of a residency bursary within the EU Project “ATACD”. She is the author of several essays and articles, and the editor of Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices (2012). She also serves as Board Member for the journals Critical Contemporary Culture and degenere – Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies. She is Critical Theory Editor for the project OLH – Open Library of Humanities.