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Levi van Gelder

Ötza, Ontologically Speaking

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  • 💙 Mutter
  • 🖤 Levi van Gelder
  • 💛 Giovanni Salice

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“Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” (2023) — installation
“Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” (2023) — installation
Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic
“Uncanny Valley Girl: Ötza’s Seasonal Enterprises at the Open Air Museum for Natural History in Santa Ana” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Uncanny Valley Girl: Ötza’s Seasonal Enterprises at the Open Air Museum for Natural History in Santa Ana” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“DJ Ötzi 2 and his Chicken Wire Bones” (2020) — styrofoam and paper-maché sculpture
“DJ Ötzi 2 and his Chicken Wire Bones” (2020) — styrofoam and paper-maché sculpture
“Flatline: Who Laughed at the Miss Prissy Kissy Epistemologissy Dance Competition?” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Flatline: Who Laughed at the Miss Prissy Kissy Epistemologissy Dance Competition?” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Brad and Ötza and the Continuum” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Brad and Ötza and the Continuum” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Ötza Against Science’s Regime of Truth” or “Ötza at the Planck scale: Italians Do It Better!” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Ötza Against Science’s Regime of Truth” or “Ötza at the Planck scale: Italians Do It Better!” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” (2023) — installation
“Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” (2023) — installation
"Ötza, Ontologically Speaking: Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic" — installation overview
"Ötza, Ontologically Speaking: Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic" — installation overview
“Uncanny Valley Girl: Ötza’s Seasonal Enterprises at the Open Air Museum for Natural History in Santa Ana” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Uncanny Valley Girl: Ötza’s Seasonal Enterprises at the Open Air Museum for Natural History in Santa Ana” (2023) — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Ötza Against Science’s Regime of Truth” or “Ötza at the Planck scale: Italians Do It Better!” (2023) close-up — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
“Ötza Against Science’s Regime of Truth” or “Ötza at the Planck scale: Italians Do It Better!” (2023) close-up — folded poster, plexiglass, stainless steel
Cryodesiccated mummy and freelance fanfiction entrepreneur Ötza invites you to her (posthu)man cave at Mutter, where she shares her fanfiction at her first solo show Ötza, Ontologically Speaking: Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic. Collaboratively developed by Levi van Gelder and Leila El Alaoui, this uncanny 5300 year old drag character propels herself into different universes and fandoms—from The L Word (2004) to The Hunger Games (2012)—in an attempt to rewrite her own story that has been (unfairly) extrapolated from scientific reconstructions. Fact and fiction blur, or even disintegrate, as Ötza playfully switches between her multiple cultural identities, lamenting her position in the world as cryodesiccated corpse, primeval Man, scientific subject, tourist spectacle, fanfiction writer, queer individual or struggling artist in contemporary Amsterdam.

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