Somewhere Between Desire And Waiting
Artist's book
May 2004

Somewhere between Desire and Waiting derives from a fascination with an understanding of identity as unstable and unfixed. I used the form of the interview as a research method and developed my work based on interviews I made with two transsexual people.

By obtaining different narratives of the experiences I became aware that we construct ourselves through narratives. Identity emerges from this process of narrative and from the communication with the other that narrative makes possible. I used these narratives to fictionalise them and to tell thus stories about the instability of identity.

My decision was to present my texts in the form of a book (or more precisely the inside of a book). The book is an intimate object, the recipient reads it alone and s/he can carry it around. It is low maintenance, relatively long-lived and freely circulating. In engaging with the work the receiver writes him/herself into it, and thus becomes part of an ongoing process of the construction of narration and identity.




The book was distributed in different hotels on bedside tables suggesting that they might have been forgotten, in trains on tables where newspapers were waiting for the next reader and in small, selected book shops .: e.g ART METROPOLE in Toronto...

Shortlisted for the Walter Tiemann Preis 2006