2008
A text produced for a failed Tourist Guide based on ‘artistic tourism’ to the island of Cyprus
An existing text from Sir Samuel Baker was written in 1879, one year after British takeover of the Island, which assessed the islands’ ‘value’ for the British Empire. I intervened and re-wrote the text which referenced the same places we had both traveled too, Sir Samuel’s contributions in pink - the conventional colour on British maps to denote colonial territories
Plurinaming / Polyphony
The practice of multiple naming began in 2001 as a by-product of physical displacement, and as an adaptive game in negotiating foreign cultural/linguistic contexts. The name is acquired after a period of acquaintanceship with a “local”, and as a gift, cannot be refused or negotiated. Names are not an alias, but rather a compounding of the original name, as such they are notated as follows:
Pia Fuchs deutsche Identität von Patricia Reed.