My work is about production and circulation of publics, economic systems and other social imaginaries, i.e. ways and institutions in which we imagine ourselves, and what we do to sustain (or escape) these.
It often involves questioning production of spectatorship. For archive, see katyasander.net
Whereas a border is generally conceived of as a line between two territories, and not as a space in itself, the transit area is exactly such a space. In Geyer and Sander’s passage through these areas, they investigate how these spaces, on the one hand, constitute and differentiate between territories, and on the other hand, spatialize the gap through a gestural, architectural, and linguistic vocabulary of hallways, doors, lines, checks, instructions, processes of identification, recognition, and namings that all lead to denied or granted passage. As the question of passage is central for the notion of a border, the book is conceived as a flip book: a number of still-images which, when flipped, gives the illusion of movement.
The book consists of twenty-two photographic sequences glimpsing fragments of movements and subjects through spaces of transit, overlaid and interwoven with 130 terms and fifty-seven sentences collected in various airports, classifying, sorting, and naming instances in spaces; a flow of images, meanings, politics, and bodies inscribed into them.
2010, English
17 x 21 cm, 256 pages, 256 color ill., incl. two b/w pamphlets, softcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-94-8
€26.00
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