Ötza, Ontologically Speaking (2023)
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.
Costume and styling Ötza: Leila El Alaoui
SFX prosthetics Ötza: Suzanne Breur
Airbrush costume: Ruperto Herrador
Bogdanoff bag: Ruperto Herrador
Soundscape: Gediminas Žygus
DOP “Ötza at Rijksmuseum”: Kyulim Kim
Paper-maché head in collaboration with: Paul Zwaan and Babs Bleeker
Special thanks to: Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Katy Hundertmark, Nuno Beijinho, Heleen Mineur, Elif Özbay, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Mariana Jurado Rico, Andoni Zamora, Charlotte Rohde, Alec Mateo, Luca Bryssinck and many more
Exhibition text handout: Jordi Viader Guerrero
Graphic design handout: Nuno Beijinho
Photography: Giovanni Salice
(solo exhibition at Mutter, Amsterdam — series of performances)
“Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” (2023) — installation
“Slabby Lee Miller” (2022) — video 05:00
“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
“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
“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
“Slabby Lee Miller” (2022) — video 05:00
"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
“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, Ontologically Speaking (2023)
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.
Costume and styling Ötza: Leila El Alaoui
SFX prosthetics Ötza: Suzanne Breur
Airbrush costume: Ruperto Herrador
Bogdanoff bag: Ruperto Herrador
Soundscape: Gediminas Žygus
DOP “Ötza at Rijksmuseum”: Kyulim Kim
Paper-maché head in collaboration with: Paul Zwaan and Babs Bleeker
Special thanks to: Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Katy Hundertmark, Nuno Beijinho, Heleen Mineur, Elif Özbay, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Mariana Jurado Rico, Andoni Zamora, Charlotte Rohde, Alec Mateo, Luca Bryssinck and many more
Exhibition text handout: Jordi Viader Guerrero
Graphic design handout: Nuno Beijinho
Photography: Giovanni Salice
(solo exhibition at Mutter, Amsterdam — series of performances)
“Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” (2023) — installation
“Slabby Lee Miller” (2022) — video 05:00
“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
“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
“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
“Slabby Lee Miller” (2022) — video 05:00
"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
“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
