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Experimental narrative novel. Completed December 2010, currently seeking publication.

Part identity-shifting sex-confessional, part madcap no-holds-barred rabbit-hole decent into Borgian chaos, ‘The Peep Show’ traverses the sexual awakening of 18-year-old Isa in late 90’s Sydney, spending a summer making a home video version of Bataille’s erotic “The Story of the Eye” with her ferocious best friend Eliza.

Isa then crashes into even more complicated territory as she straddles an open relationship while a nonchalant guitarist in present day London. Isa’s passion for her disarmingly insane boyfriend and her neighbour upstairs, blind photographer Elan, re-awakens her ambition to continue making the ‘The Story of the Eye’ film.

Simultaneously, the estranged Eliza, now in Berlin, is also re-awakening the film and a mutual passion for Elan that blurs the boundaries of time, space, identity and what is real, if anything ever was.

siouxzi mernagh | words + pictures | writing residency in Finland

September 10, 2013
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Writing Residency: Mustarinda, Finland, Sept. – Oct. 2013 From Friday September 13, I will be undertaking a writing residency at Mustarinda, Finland for a period of intense work on my new project ‘In the dark, dark, room.’ “In landscape as well as etymology, Mustarinda is related to the numerous Black Mountains of the Anglo-Saxon world and the German Schwarzwald. A model of sorts for the Mustarinda Association has been the Black Mountain College artist community that […]

siouxzi mernagh | words + pictures | associate fellowship, ICI Berlin

February 8, 2013
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Associate Fellowship with the ICI, Berlin, 2013 ‘In the dark, dark room’: a new research, writing, installation and film project to be initiated as an Associate Fellow with the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Each year, the ICI Berlin invites an international and multidisciplinary group of fellows to link their individual projects to the ICI Core Project and to engage in a joint exploration with other fellows at the institute. As a former fellow, Siouxzi L Mernagh […]

siouxzi mernagh | words + pictures | solo show, 18m galerie

October 26, 2012
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Exit the Peep Show: upcoming solo show November 18, 18m Galerie Berlin. (image by Melissa Ramos). 18m galerie | 18th november | 18uhr Coming up at 18m Galerie is another screening of our 13min experimental road film ‘Exit’ with performances from my book ‘The Peep Show’. “Featuring performed, recorded and visualised extracts from a new novel by Siouxzi Mernagh, ‘The Peep Show’, followed by a screening of her experimental road film ‘Exit’. ‘Exit the peep show’ […]

siouxzi mernagh | words + pictures | solo performance, EXPO

October 26, 2012
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Cabinet of Peep: new solo show September 21 – 23, EXPO, Berlin. “For the first installment of the “Voyeurs” series, EXPO is welcoming Australian award-winning writer and moving-images maker Siouxzi Mernagh. For the occasion, Siouxzi Mernagh is presenting her “Cabinet of Peep”, a possibly indiscrete performance initiated on the base of her recently finished second novel, “The Peep Show”. In “Voyeurs”, performers don’t act directly in front of the public. They are entrapped within the exhibiting apparatus, a closed white […]