Marlene Haring als Beilage (Marlene Haring as insert/side dish), 2,500 unique photocopies, distributed in Quart, Heft für Kultur Tirol, No. 11, November 2007, Austria

‘Für Sie reiß ich mir den Arsch auf’ is equivalent to ‘For you, I work my ass off’ in English. Literally, it says: ‘For you, I tear my arse open’.

The publication was accompanied by this message by Marlene Haring:

For whom? For you! For you. I have been thinking about this for weeks. How to solve this situation, what contact I would wish to have with you, the future owner of the insert. What do you want from me? What do I want from you? Or what shall I do for you? To greet you politely, flatter you, report to you, or to go like a bull at a gate (to blurt something out)? Honestly, I choose the latter, since I do only have a moment’s chance when you get to this page, where you could get to know me. For you, I work my ass off. That’s how fast it can go from effort to intimacy.