Serious Game (2009)

Anja Weber (photography) & Sabine Ercklentz (sound)
26 Photographs, 50x60 cm, framed 4 channel audio loop, 30 min, English

In 2008, 26 trans*activists were portrayed and interviewed.
Funded by the European Commission (Grundtvig) and Transgender Europe.

Serious Game_Exhibition
Documentation, Beursschouwburg Brussels, 2013

/ I have very very few photographs of myself as a child / I definitely want hormones / I find it very difficult to give myself all these identity labels and say: oh yes, I’m that and that and that / I identify as transgender, as FTM, as male, as queer / there are a lot of people who think it is very hip to be queer and to do genderplay, but sometimes I get really pissed because for me it is so exhausting and can really hurt / I am a developing human being / I strongly believe that you can be a transwoman or a woman without a female body / I don’t want surgery, I am happy with what I’ve got and I actually enjoy it / I am a woman! / this is all very much to do with visibility and not being able to bare that other people might look at me and say: you are not adequate, we know who you are, you don’t know who you are, and.... you look stupid / probably, in 10 years I will be a man but now I am a woman / the binary system is the problem, nature in itself is diverse / why can’t we have transgendered newsreaders, transgendered accountants, transgendered politicians? / I think performing gender is a game but it can get very serious / If you have further questions just give me a buzz or write me a mail /