How are health, sickness, chronic illness, and disability produced through social inequality? How are care relations outsourced, deferred, or rendered invisible?

Waiting for What? considers waiting as a suspended temporal condition and examines how waiting rooms operate as spaces shaped by solidarity, negotiation, and resistance. Waiting is approached as a condition structured by endurance, collective presence, and uncertainty.

The work was developed during a residency at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center as a collaborative project by Daria Syvakos and Mika Ebbing. It unfolds as an ongoing inquiry into waiting, care, and the administrative conditions through which access to support and treatment is organised.

Drawing on empirical research, the project reflects on how knowledge circulates across institutional and disciplinary contexts. Visitors encounter the work as part of an open research process that continues beyond the exhibition setting.

The video installation engages with the history of the modern welfare state and the social sciences. Its visual material references a heritage report on the building, constructed in 1894 for the Reichsversicherungsamt (Imperial Insurance Office), the central institution responsible for administering early systems of social insurance within the German Empire. The building now houses the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Interior architectural details of the building are reproduced as 3D-printed elements within the installation. Detached from their original function, these forms register the persistence of institutional structures across time. Waiting for What? directs attention to the spatial, temporal, and administrative conditions that structure access to treatment, recognition, and support.