Staged Performance
Clothes, Exhibition, Hungary, Memories in English, School
Selected for Cello
Class, Dreams, Exhibition, Memories in English, School
Selected for Rowing
Body, Class, Exhibition, Friends, Memories in English, School, Sport
Lenin’s Head
Exhibition, Institutions, Memories in English, School
The Most Beautiful Doll
Exhibition, Memories in English, Toys
A Teddy that Travelled to Nicaragua
Exhibition, Memories in English, Toys, Travel
International Year of the Child Costume
Clothes, Exhibition, Memories in English
The Flag – The Dress – The Bag
Accessories, Clothes, Exhibition, Georgia, Memories in English
Another Brick in the Wall
Borders, Exhibition, Media, Memories in English, Russia, USA
“Well, just you wait” is better
Exhibition, Identity, Media, Memories in English, Russia, Vietnam, Wonder
#FreedomOfExpression
Desire, Exhibition, Independence, Memories in English
Greetings
Exhibition, Memories in English
Greetings
Exhibition, Memories in English
Greetings
Exhibition, Memories in English
Greetings
Exhibition, Memories in English
A Gift
Exhibition, Family, Memories in English
Terveisiä / Greetings
Exhibition, Finland, Memories in English, Muistot suomeksi
Fuck you
Exhibition, Memories in English
Mother
Exhibition, Family, Memories in English
Greetings
Exhibition, Germany, Memories in English
Bananas
Exhibition, Food, Germany, Memories in English
Coal Delivery
Community, Exhibition, Germany, Happiness, Labor, Memories in English
Under the Brandenburg Gate
Exhibition, Friends, Germany, Intimacy, Memories in English, Sexuality, Transportation, Travel
The Mole
Exhibition, Media, Memories in English, Russia
Western Music
Exhibition, Family, Media, Memories in English
Hopscotch
Exhibition, Memories in English, Play
Czech Cartoon
Czechoslovakia, Exhibition, Media, Memories in English, Poland
American Christmas Tree
Difference, Exhibition, Friends, Memories in English, USA, Wonder
Octyabrenok
Accessories, Clothes, Exhibition, Memories in English, School, Soviet Union
Exchange
Exhibition, Memories in English, Russia, School, Travel, USA
Secret
Family, Memories in English, Secrets
Air
Alone, Animals, China, Dreams, Memories in English, Secrets, Toys, Wonder
Class
Dreams, Friends, Memories in English, Play, Secrets, USA, Wonder
Listening to sleep sounds
Alone, Brazil, Dreams, Memories in English, Secrets, Wonder
The doll and the toxic train
Fear, Memories in English, Poland, Toys
An encounter, in the wild
Animals, Dreams, Memories in English, Nature, USA, Wonder
Honey mushroom
Family, Food, Memories in English, Nature, Poland
Traveling stones
Family, Japan, Memories in English, Nature, Play
Seven gods in a rice grain
Food, Japan, Memories in English, Nature
“The last one turns off the lights”
Borders, Germany, Memories in English, State ideology, Wonder
My process of remembering
Family, Gender, Memories in English, State ideology, Yugoslavia
Celebrating Easter secretly
Family, Georgia, Holiday, Memories in English, School, State ideology, Wonder
My Soviet Childhood
Family, Food, Georgia, Memories in English, Race, State ideology, Wonder
Learning reading and mapping
Family, Home, Memories in English, Soviet Union, Wonder
Gdynia September 1977
Clothes, Memories in English, Poland, School
How was it to be small?
Body, Memories in English, Play, Sweden
Material culture
Borders, Clothes, Desire, Media, Memories in English, Poland, Sport, USA, Wonder
Living in a house and starting school early
Home, Memories in English, School, Ukraine
Growing up on ‘this side’
Borders, Memories in English, USA, Wonder
Cutting her hair
Alone, Body, Family, Hungary, Memories in English, School
Poem
Hungary, Institutions, Memories in English, Public events, School, State ideology
Sunday by the lake
Family, Food, Happiness, Hungary, Memories in English, Nature
The leaky boat
Friends, Hungary, Memories in English, Nature
Work camp
Friends, Happiness, Hungary, Memories in English
The winter coat from grandma
Hungary, Memories in English, Social upheaval, Wonder
Never give up
Family, Holiday, Hungary, Memories in English
Team building
Hungary, Labor, Memories in English, Nature
The disco was the best!
Friends, Happiness, Hungary, Media, Memories in English
‘All you need is love’?
Borders, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Memories in English
Propaganda
Friends, Memories in English, Romania, School, Wonder
Under the table in her own world
Azerbaijan, Furniture, Memories in English, Play
Social unrest
Chile, Memories in English, Social upheaval, State ideology
Revolution and childhood
Class, Memories in English, Play, Romania, Social upheaval
Learning how to write
Family, Happiness, Home, Memories in English, Play, Romania
“Walking shopper”
Azerbaijan, Clothes, Family, Memories in English, Soviet Union, Travel
Gorbachev’s visit to Oulu
Borders, Finland, Memories in English, Public events, Soviet Union
Periods
Body, Family, Memories in English, School, Serbia, Wonder
Intergenerational changes
Borders, Memories in English, School, Serbia, State ideology, Wonder
Displacement
Body, Fear, Institutions, Memories in English, Serbia, State ideology
Sting cassette
Finland, Friends, Media, Memories in English, Soviet Union, Travel, USA
“Doomsday Clock”
Borders, Family, Fear, Memories in English, USA
Searching for childhood gummi bears
Food, Germany, Happiness, Memories in English
Street photographers
Clothes, Georgia, Media, Memories in English, Public events
Change
Argentina, Family, Independence, Memories in English, Mexico, Social upheaval
Big prize
Borders, Memories in English, Slovakia, Toys, Travel
On the same side?
Borders, Bulgaria, Memories in English, Nationality, Poland, Romania, Travel
One common language
Borders, Class, Friends, Georgia, Germany, Happiness, Media, Memories in English, Travel
Soviet feminism?
Gender, Georgia, Independence, Memories in English, School
Forbidden buttons
Borders, Desire, Germany, Media, Memories in English
Divided games
Borders, Germany, Memories in English, Play
Miss Autumn
Alone, Memories in English, Poland, School
New school
Clothes, Czechoslovakia, Difference, Memories in English, School, Youth organization
Outside great, inside rotten
Czechoslovakia, Memories in English, Public events, Wonder
Being Polish and thinking about other places
Borders, Fear, Media, Memories in English, Nationality, Poland, Travel
Her favourite Szarik trousers
Borders, Clothes, Media, Memories in English, Play, Poland, State ideology
Tomboy
Body, Clothes, Gender, Memories in English, Play, Poland
‘White sports’
Class, Hungary, Memories in English, School, Sport
Trabant
Alone, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Memories in English, Transportation, Travel
Watercolor nail polish
Desire, Family, Gender, Hungary, Memories in English, Play
Orthodox Peace Fellowship
Borders, Institutions, Memories in English, Religion, State ideology, USA
Mariel boat-lift
Borders, Institutions, Labor, Memories in English, USA
Musician
Media, Memories in English, State ideology, USA
Travel in Post-Soviet Era
Kazakhstan, Memories in English, Travel, USA
War and Anti-War
Czechoslovakia, Institutions, Memories in English, Social upheaval, State ideology, USA
Travel and mapping
Borders, Difference, Memories in English, Social upheaval, State ideology, Travel, USA
Politics
Borders, Media, Memories in English, State ideology, USA
The Nuclear Threat
Family, Fear, Home, Memories in English, Social upheaval, USA
Love of books
Difference, Home, Media, Memories in English, State ideology, USA, Wonder
Treasures in the Cupboard
Accessories, Armenia, Desire, Memories in English, School, Wonder
Fragmented recollections
Alone, Borders, Ethnicity, Family, Kyrgyzstan, Memories in English, School, Secrets
Noisy classroom
Clothes, Fear, Gender, Kyrgyzstan, Memories in English, School
Bored
Alone, Difference, Fear, Kyrgyzstan, Memories in English, School
First communion
Clothes, Difference, Gender, Memories in English, Play, Poland
A train journey to Bulgaria
Borders, Czechoslovakia, Fear, Holiday, Memories in English, Poland, Travel
A daily journey
Animals, Friends, Memories in English, Romania, School
The divide from below
Borders, Fear, Germany, Independence, Memories in English, Transportation, Wonder
A punk in the club, a civilian at school
Borders, Community, Ethnicity, Media, Memories in English, Slovenia
Selena’s radio waves
Borders, Media, Memories in English, Slovenia, State ideology, UK
Elephant Eduard
Hungary, Memories in English, Play, Toys
What happened to Lenin in Razliw?
Memories in English, Play, School, Ukraine
Ice-cream in Trieste/Palmanova/Graz
Borders, Croatia, Food, Memories in English
Timi
Body, Holiday, Hungary, Memories in English, Nature, Sexuality
Candy wraps are not money
Alone, Independence, Kyrgyzstan, Memories in English, School, Secrets
Summer in a furniture factory
Class, Family, Furniture, Hungary, Institutions, Memories in English
Chicks in the cooperative
Animals, Hungary, Memories in English, Wonder
Picking apples
Family, Georgia, Independence, Labor, Memories in English, Nature
Picking tomatoes, “it should be fun!”
Family, Friends, Georgia, Labor, Memories in English, Play
Tsuga
Animals, Family, Friends, Georgia, Holiday, Memories in English, Nature
Moving with the crowd
Fear, Happiness, Hungary, Memories in English, Public events, School
Lucky nylons
Class, Clothes, Desire, Latvia, Memories in English, Secrets
Learning to weed: Oma’s story
Family, Labor, Latvia, Memories in English, Nature
Blueberries and lingonberries
Finland, Labor, Memories in English, Nature, Sweden
Working on grandma’s farm
Family, Finland, Labor, Memories in English, Nature
Death Valley, 1990
Desire, Intimacy, Memories in English, Travel, USA
Gloria, 1985
Family, Home, Memories in English, Nature, USA
A mother’s dream
Family, Happiness, Home, Memories in English, Romania, School
Going home
Borders, Hungary, Memories in English, Nationality, State ideology, Travel
Carol Park
Bulgaria, Clothes, Ethnicity, Memories in English, Romania, Toys
First escape from school
Community, Georgia, Happiness, Independence, Memories in English, Play
Exploring national identity
Borders, Ethnicity, Georgia, Memories in English, Ossetia, School
Storm
Alone, Family, Fear, Memories in English, Nature, Yugoslavia
29 November
Memories in English, Public events, School, State ideology, Wonder, Yugoslavia
Reading the prayer
Alone, Borders, Croatia, Fear, Institutions, Memories in English, Religion
Not going to faint
Hungary, Memories in English, Public events, School, State ideology
English songs
Desire, Holiday, Hungary, Media, Memories in English
Safe in the classroom
Germany, Happiness, Memories in English, School, Transportation
Poisoned candies
Difference, Memories in English, Public events, Soviet Union, State ideology, Travel
The playground.
Body, Friends, Media, Memories in English, Play, Romania
‘Dvor’/ ‘Hood’ parties
Clothes, Community, Ethnicity, Gender, Kazakhstan, Media, Memories in English
Nokia
Borders, Class, Desire, Finland, Memories in English, Russia
Watercolor set
Alone, Memories in English, Nature, Play, Serbia
Life cycle
Animals, Finland, Friends, Memories in English, Nature, Wonder
My Little Pony
Finland, Happiness, Memories in English, Toys
Summer in Tashkent
Community, Food, Memories in English, Travel, USA, Uzbekistan, Youth organization
Horse club
Alone, Desire, Memories in English, Play, School, USA
Visiting the Fallout Shelter
Borders, Friends, Memories in English, USA, Wonder
Christmas with his first guitar
Family, Happiness, Holiday, Media, Memories in English, USA
“Everything”
Desire, Family, Media, Memories in English, Romania, State ideology
Feeling at home/Sailing away
Argentina, Home, Memories in English, Play, State ideology
Backpain
Body, Hungary, Institutions, Memories in English, Sport
Grape harvest
Family, Hungary, Labor, Memories in English, Nature
Smuggling
Borders, Czechoslovakia, Family, Memories in English, Religion
Her shoes
Croatia, Family, Fear, Memories in English, Social upheaval, Wonder
Smearing the Portrait
Class, Gender, Memories in English, Play, Romania, School, Social upheaval
Playing football
Difference, Friends, Memories in English, Play, Romania, Social upheaval
The ultimate Moscow solo
Alone, Home, Media, Memories in English, Russia, Social upheaval
Cherry picking
Hungary, Labor, Memories in English, Nature, Transportation
Off from school to harvest cucumbers!
Labor, Latvia, Memories in English, Nature, Wonder
Underground shop
Class, Institutions, Media, Memories in English, Poland
A letter from Florida
Borders, Memories in English, Poland, USA
Independence?
Friends, Hungary, Independence, Memories in English, Secrets
Useful
Body, Difference, Fear, Gender, Georgia, Institutions, Memories in English
Game boy
Family, Hungary, Memories in English, Secrets, Toys
Peach
Friends, Hungary, Memories in English, Nature, Secrets, Wonder
All over the world
Australia, Memories in English, Play, School, Wonder
Brownies
Australia, Memories in English, Play, Youth organization
Not crossing the line
Desire, Gender, Memories in English, Russia, School, Sexuality
Alone at the train station
Alone, Fear, Germany, Memories in English, Transportation
Going home
Borders, Germany, Memories in English, Travel
A child left alone
Alone, Difference, Fear, Memories in English, Slovenia, State ideology
Spending time with grannies
Clothes, Family, Food, Georgia, Memories in English, Transportation
Church donation box
Gender, Georgia, Institutions, Memories in English, Religion
Pink sweets
Class, Desire, Food, Germany, Memories in English
My first trip abroad
Borders, Bulgaria, Memories in English, Russia, Soviet Union, Transportation, Travel
A summer camp
France, Memories in English, Nationality, Romania, Travel
Back and forth
Ethnicity, Gender, Germany, Memories in English, Mexico, Travel
Learning the way to kindergarten
Family, Germany, Memories in English, Mexico, School
Breakfast across borders
Borders, Family, Food, Germany, Memories in English, Mexico
Blackberry picking
Azerbaijan, Borders, Family, Memories in English, Nature
Tarzan
Community, Happiness, Media, Memories in English, Yugoslavia
The marketplace
Class, Community, Food, Labor, Memories in English, Yugoslavia
Between worlds
Ethnicity, Family, Germany, Memories in English, School, Turkey
Pioneer camp without pioneers
Community, Holiday, Memories in English, Russia, Youth organization
Catalogue of the outside world
Armenia, Desire, France, Memories in English, Race
Colorado beetles
Animals, Borders, Labor, Memories in English, Ukraine
Water lilies
Animals, Holiday, Memories in English, Nature, Ukraine
Girl’s flower nails
Body, Gender, Memories in English, Russia, Transportation
Him and grandma
Class, Family, Food, Georgia, Memories in English
Travelling teapot
Food, Kazakhstan, Memories in English, Travel, UK
Grandpa’s Red Lada
Borders, Class, Clothes, Croatia, Independence, Memories in English
Bridge
Family, Georgia, Memories in English, Secrets, State ideology
Confrontation
Family, Fear, Georgia, Memories in English
The boy with ginger hair
Body, Gender, Georgia, Memories in English, Sexuality
Gray zipper boots
Borders, Clothes, Hungary, Memories in English, Yugoslavia
Her military boots
Clothes, Gender, Memories in English, School, Serbia
Pink shoes
Brazil, Clothes, Gender, Memories in English
Tempting strawberries
Desire, Food, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Memories in English, Secrets
China vase
Alone, Home, Memories in English, Race, Romania, Wonder
Birthday Chocolate
Community, Desire, Food, Kazakhstan, Memories in English, Secrets
Sneaking out
Family, Friends, Happiness, Hungary, Memories in English, Secrets
The jacket
Clothes, Germany, Memories in English, Travel
Radio talk
Argentina, Family, Media, Memories in English, Play
Going to grandma
Borders, Family, Memories in English, Romania, Travel
A (long) journey
Family, Memories in English, Nature, Slovakia, Travel
Soup
Food, Germany, Memories in English, Public events
The Secret
Friends, Memories in English, Romania, Secrets, Wonder
Going to the Delta
Family, Memories in English, Nature, Romania, Travel
Smuggling jewellery
Accessories, Animals, Borders, Family, Latvia, Memories in English, Soviet Union, USA
Memory of ghost stations
Borders, Friends, Germany, Independence, Memories in English
Sleepy smuggles
Borders, Family, Germany, Memories in English, Travel
Her aunt
Croatia, Desire, Family, Gender, Memories in English
Unwanted kiss
Memories in English, Poland, Public events, School
Dacha fashion
Family, Friends, Memories in English, Play, Russia
Not going to die. Period.
Body, Fear, Latvia, Memories in English
Blood on the sheet
Body, Gender, Memories in English, Poland, Secrets
Blood on the pants
Body, Clothes, Fear, Hungary, Memories in English
Nyugati
Hungary, Memories in English, Romania, Travel
Mysterious kiss
Furniture, Intimacy, Memories in English, Poland, Wonder
Hungarian furniture
Family, Furniture, Memories in English, Ossetia, Soviet Union, Transportation
Hungarian bed
Azerbaijan, Family, Furniture, Gender, Memories in English
Uneventful event
Memories in English, Public events, School, Soviet Union, Ukraine
Turning moment
Community, Memories in English, Public events, Sport, USA, Youth organization
Gymnast in training camp
Alone, Memories in English, Nature, Romania, Sport, Youth organization
Moultonborough Central School, 1983
Class, Memories in English, School, State ideology, USA
The boy and the body
Body, Family, Gender, Hungary, Memories in English
“No physical activity for a year”
Body, Clothes, Institutions, Memories in English, Poland, Sport
Dance competition
Community, Memories in English, Poland, Public events
Afternoon nap
Furniture, Home, Hungary, Memories in English, Nature
Playing hide and seek
Body, Hungary, Memories in English, Play
Removing her tonsils
Body, Germany, Institutions, Memories in English
Interrupting childhood
Body, Germany, Memories in English, School, Sport, Wonder
Only God protected her
Alone, Body, Gender, Memories in English, Poland
Sliding down frozen steps
Body, Fear, Memories in English, Play, Poland
Seeing through others’ eyes
Body, Memories in English, Romania, School
Naked at the beach
Body, Intimacy, Memories in English, Nature, Race, Romania
The tennis player
Body, Czechoslovakia, Desire, Gender, Memories in English
Secret radio
Borders, Germany, Happiness, Media, Memories in English, Secrets
In October it’s their birthday
Accessories, Class, Clothes, Gender, Memories in English, Romania
Falling toys
Class, Gender, Media, Memories in English, Romania, Toys
Barbie
Brazil, Desire, Home, Memories in English, Toys
The yellow case
Brazil, Family, Gender, Memories in English, Toys
Handkerchiefs back then
Borders, Family, Latvia, Memories in English, Soviet Union, Wonder
Tom and Jerry
Chile, Family, Fear, Home, Memories in English
Travel to the Moon
Chile, Desire, Memories in English, School, Social upheaval, Travel
Adult hospital ward
Body, Czechoslovakia, Fear, Institutions, Memories in English
Open coffin
Czechoslovakia, Friends, Happiness, Memories in English, Play
Trip to grandma
Family, Food, Lithuania, Memories in English, Poland, Travel
Two funerals
Family, Friends, Institutions, Memories in English, Sweden
“If the war comes”
Borders, Family, Fear, Memories in English, Sweden
The “secret” naked body
Body, Memories in English, Romania, Secrets, Sexuality, Wonder
Alone in the classroom
Alone, Body, Memories in English, Romania, School
Disobedient body
Body, Latvia, Memories in English, School
The Dream of Paris
Borders, Desire, Germany, Home, Memories in English
A Trip to East Berlin
Family, Germany, Memories in English, Travel, Wonder
Daydreaming in Soviet reality
Latvia, Memories in English, School, Soviet Union, Wonder
Secret Spells
Body, Latvia, Memories in English, Nature, Secrets
Pink Flamingo
Animals, Community, Latvia, Memories in English, Soviet Union
‘Her New Friend’
Chile, Friends, Hungary, Memories in English, Race
Fairy Tales and Princesses Against Soviet Realism
Family, Latvia, Media, Memories in English, Soviet Union
Good-bye, Lenin!
Family, Memories in English, Russia, School, Social upheaval, Soviet Union