DAIspora: Where do DAI students and alumni actually reside?
"The DAI students and alumni have a strong self organised network and make it a point to meet in cities like Rotterdam and Amsterdam. When I first arrived to the Netherlands in my first year, I was invited to an art exhibition at TENT Rotterdam, where an alumna had her solo show. It was great to meet the DAI's diaspora (!)".
For the period of their studies with the DAI, part of student body (particularly the non-European passport holding students who will receive a Schengen-visa upon their enrolment) chooses to be based in the Netherlands, most often in Rotterdam (where a quite substantial, closely-knit, and welcoming community of alumni is thriving). Others decide to move to Berlin or Brussels—the latter competing with Rotterdam for the title of "largest DAI community" in the world—or alternatively, other European cities or villages.
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There is also always a considerable number of students traveling for every Confluence back and forth between "soft spaceship" DAI and their hometowns, such as for example Dublin, Nicosia, Lisbon, Naples, Athens, or Marseille.
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Despite the DAI's nomadic nature and the geographical dispersion of its community members, a strong and well-maintained alumni network has been established. See for example the DAI Friends & Alumni Grant and the amazing community that makes it possible.
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In general, DAI practitioners are cautious about embracing the exclusive claims of the neoliberal globalization project. Instead, they share a fair-minded, critically attuned inclination toward a sustainable and decolonial internationalism, often leading them to places outside the confinement of hipster ghettos in art's comfort zones. We are proud to say that many of our alumni are highly motivated to cement their worldwide DAI friendships.
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