Ötza Writes Fanfiction (2023)
After spending many hours in solitude writing fanfiction in her (posthu)Man Cave, 5300 year old cryodesiccated mummy DJ Ötzi 2 (her friends call her Ötza) decides to share some excerpts with a live audience.
Collaboratively developed by Levi van Gelder and Leila El Alaoui, this uncanny drag character propels herself into different universes and fandoms—from The L Word (2004) to The Hunger Games (2012)—while simultaneously rewriting her own story that has been unfairly extrapolated from scientific reconstructions as one of isolation, extinction and gluten intolerance.
Fact and fiction will blur, or even disintegrate, as Ötza will playfully switch between her multiple cultural identities and move from reading fanfiction to playfully reflecting on strands of theory, 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.
Performance and writing: Levi van Gelder
Costume and styling: Leila El Alaoui
SFX prosthetics: Suzanne Breur
Airbrush costume: Ruperto Herrador
Soundscape: Gediminas Žygus
Funded by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Perdu, Amsterdam — March 2023
De School, Amsterdam — March 2023
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — May 2023
Sign Project Space, Groningen — January 2024
Semester9, Loods 6, Amsterdam — February 2024
(performance — fanfiction reading)
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Promo for "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Still from documentation "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Promo for "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Vermeer Fest, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
"Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Vermeer Fest, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Ötza Writes Fanfiction (2023)
After spending many hours in solitude writing fanfiction in her (posthu)Man Cave, 5300 year old cryodesiccated mummy DJ Ötzi 2 (her friends call her Ötza) decides to share some excerpts with a live audience.
Collaboratively developed by Levi van Gelder and Leila El Alaoui, this uncanny drag character propels herself into different universes and fandoms—from The L Word (2004) to The Hunger Games (2012)—while simultaneously rewriting her own story that has been unfairly extrapolated from scientific reconstructions as one of isolation, extinction and gluten intolerance.
Fact and fiction will blur, or even disintegrate, as Ötza will playfully switch between her multiple cultural identities and move from reading fanfiction to playfully reflecting on strands of theory, 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.
Performance and writing: Levi van Gelder
Costume and styling: Leila El Alaoui
SFX prosthetics: Suzanne Breur
Airbrush costume: Ruperto Herrador
Soundscape: Gediminas Žygus
Funded by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Perdu, Amsterdam — March 2023
De School, Amsterdam — March 2023
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — May 2023
Sign Project Space, Groningen — January 2024
Semester9, Loods 6, Amsterdam — February 2024
(performance — fanfiction reading)
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Promo for "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Still from documentation "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Snippet from "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Perdu, Amsterdam
Promo for "Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Vermeer Fest, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
"Ötza Writes Fanfiction" (2023) — Vermeer Fest, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
