Nominated for the Turner prize in 1998, Sam Taylor-Wood is regarded as an important contemporary artist. She first created a stir with her video work 'Atlantic' at the 1995 Biennale in Venice. Since then her photographic series 'Five Revolutionary Seconds' won a great deal of critical acclaim. Like her previous works, her newest video project - with the ambiguous title 'Third Party' - is about the tensions and erotic entanglements that arise between people in a closed environment. In addition to the inclusion of some recent photographic works, this text documents Sam Taylor-Wood's work on 'Third Party', which she realized with professional actors and Marianne Faithful.