Die Selbe Geschichte an Einem Anderen Ort / The Same Story Elsewhere

Artist Maya Schweizer is working on new audio-visual narratives, in forms of image-text installation they are closer to YouTube than to the cinema. The starting point is usually everyday situations, which she combines with found and invented texts. "I think that in small, personal acts are often visible on the street social conditions. I try to take the stories seriously in their divergence and compare them with my projections, " Maya Schweizer describes her artistic approach.

Six of her video works in "The Same Story Elsewhere" are being commented in detail: Madeleine Bernstorff, Margit Czenki, Joerg Franz Becker, Nanna Heidenreich, Marcel Odenbach and Ulrich Peltzer talk about their impressions and associations and are going through their reflections, the moving images of video in Medium book to understand. Essays by Sabeth Buchmann and Katja Schroder situate Maya Schweizer's artistic work at the interface of art and film, documentary and fiction.

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "La même histoire ailleurs" in the Westphalian Art Association, from 4 September to 24 October 2010, shown in Münster.