Alternative career
DVD-loop, 11 min
By Eliana Ivarsdotter Haddad, with Vanessa Liftig
2007

This is a part of an interview project and a work in progress, that deals with an exchange or a construction of identities, idealized images of labor and the borders between documentary and fiction.

In this interview I have given Vanessa questions concerning her working life. Some of the answers are given to her by me, instructing her to tell them as credible as possible. In the answers I have given to her I have written as I would answer myself. Other answers are her own, where I have told her to use the truth as freely as possible. We have not discussed between each other to which extent our answers are truthful. This confusion, or dissolving, both between the two of us and between the piece and the viewer, is the field that I wish to examine and develop further.