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"Kuckuck" by Jannis Weu observes how wage labour mutates the body, fragments time and how the bureaucratic system in which children are embedded also constructs them. The text sees itself as a counter-form to the development reports and performance documentation that are part of everyday working life in residential groups. They give the illusion of documentation, but in doing so shape the lives and experiences of the children before they are able to speak.

A syllable is formed from a sound, an incomplete word. The narrative jeopardises binaries of behaviour and degeneracy, madness and sanity, environment and inner world. The text collages poetic testimony about the unmasking of the nuclear family as a supposed space of protection and growth, but actually a possessive, individualistic, hierarchising, brutal form of cohabitation, with experiences of exhaustion from the shift work of a queer pedagogical professional. The impossibility of just care in the capitalist system reverberates in images of dissolving physicality.

Jannis Weu is an artist, author and educational professional. Jannis is currently studying undergraduate media art with Eli Cortiñas, Stine Marie Jacobsen and
Mareike Bernien.