Alexandra Gašparovičová

Z Viedne do Bratislavy ďaleko

Torn between the wish to be the most assimilated austrianest immigrant to ever set foot in the city of Vienna and a sudden newfound pride in being a Slovak Eastern European, I try to write, joke & drag myself out of the massive sediments of national identity. Thanks to the self-awarded title of the objective outsider, I investigate what it is that makes a person of a place and what it takes for another person – who is technically not from that place, but born really only mere 78 kilometers away – to get as close to being perceived as one-of-us-insiders as he possibly can.