Ich bin ein anderer/I am an Other

This book is a praise of failure and refusal. It goes against the paradigm to think positive and to present adequate and speaks about doubt, insecurity and weakness. In between of constant refusal but still not being able to realize oneself, we can meet Walter Ego. While taking a look into the abyss of his emotional state, he shares his drawings and notes that have come up during this process of radical self inquiry. His story does not have a thread running through it connecting all its parts. His story has gaps and blank spaces to be filled again with new questions instead of answers. In that sense this book can be read as a palimpsest again and again, while retelling his permanent search for a way out without having a clear destination. This can go on forever until it all falls apart into fragments of the anti-hero who tries to withdraw and is never able to arrive. In the end it deals with his overall strive toward the ability to love and to wish. His struggle is carried by a melancholic undertone, at some times subtle at others humorous, always intertwining with poetic and philosophical moments, shaped by a tireless longing for a resistive way of life beyond its instrumentality. Walter Ego; the name says it all: "I fuck me up to save me. This is not a program!"

Walter Ego lebt in Wien. Er hat an der Akademie der bildenden Ku¨nste in Wien in der PsychoConceptualArtPractices-Klasse Kunst studiert. Er hat weder einen Preis gewonnen, noch ein Stipendium bekommen. Er war auch nie in einem Artist-in-Residence- oder Fellowship-Programm und kann auch sonst auf keine la¨ngeren Auslandsaufentalte verweisen. Er ist auch durch keine Galerie vertreten. Aber er macht jetzt Therapie. Seit zwei Jahren lehrt er bildnerische Emanzipation an einem Gymnasium in Wien.