Microfictions. Autostories by Walter Ego and Barbara Juch

"Strays, when heard togehter, are noisy." – Sara Ahmed, Willful Subjects
Barbara Juch and Walter Ego's practice evolves out of a questioning of their personal experiences. The main connection between them is their way of facing their place in the world through writing. Constantly changing forms like spontaneous outbursts, short stories, poetic descriptions, personal mails or short messages characterize their performance. Instead of writing in a straight line, the stories are wayward paths that refuse compliance with the continuity of writing. While meandering through microfictions, they attempt to position themselves with their texts, that contain both a dramatic and serious approach as well as a certain tone of self-mockery. Quite entertaining.
Walter Ego is the anti-hero of a century of positive power, stupidity and hatred. He sabotages streams of communication and holds up positivity, conformity and the violent consensus of the (neo)liberal ghost against western rationality. He is a deviation of orthodoxy and inhabits the unthinkable outside.
Barbara Juch is a ______, writer and artist. She is part of the MA program in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as well as a member in the art collectives bobbi v. and cherry z. guggenheim.