Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, born in 1967 in Copenhagen, represents Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. A crucial part of Eliasson's work in the Biennale, this book is not merely a representative reading of the exhibition, but has the character of a counterpart to it. In close collaboration with Danish author Svend Åge Madsen, who has persistently challenged our notions of time and space in his writings, a number of Danish and foreign authors, poets, and theoreticians were invited to contribute texts that explore our constantly shifting and ever-evolving capacity for orienting ourselves. The texts serve as an examination of how we physically and psychologically orient ourselves in the world-and of what happens when we are deprived of, for example, our ability to hear and remember, to expect something, or to experience the passage of time. The texts are linked together by Svend Åge Madsen. The book is designed by cyan, Berlin, and has no beginning and no end. Exhibition schedule: Venice Biennale, June 15 - November 2, 2003