It starts with The Visitor, a fictional/real character who wanders the castle (see contribution by Marcelo Cardoso Gama). At a certain hour, of a certain day, he sits in a room with The Writer and gives his impressions. The format is the interview. The Writer tries to make sense of this fiction/reality. He asks questions. He is not always sure he understands, in fact, he never understands, but he continues to ask questions. He is curious. He is a voice of reason in this multi-layered reality. But he too gets swept up in the chaos and his sense of reason becomes challenged. He holds his ground best he can.

Interview 1

Later the interviews turn to drink; and the drink leads to more questions; there are conversations and the sound of what makes the artist tick. And so The Writer’s archive unearths something of the inner workings of the mechanisms of art and the institution, and the experiment (living) of 52 hours.

Interview 2

Interview 3

Venues: archive, studio 14 (ground floor) and elsewhere

Photo by Anne Vollenbröker