ARTIFICIAL GUT FEELING by Anna Zett
with Anna Zett joined by Noha Ramadan (jacuzzi) at 8.30pm
Friday November 29, 8pm
If winning can only occur in a competition between equal opponents, someone who isn’t equal will need to adopt a different strategy and let go of the promise, or the curse, of victory. Anna Zett takes up the challenge in this collection of personal science fiction, registering the traces systems of power leave in the body, in its locomotory, nervous and digestive systems. Zett’s voice appears in several textual guises, addressing authority, resistance, trauma and the physicality of language. Dedicated to the feminist revolution, the post-socialist subject of ‘Artificial Gut Feeling’ questions logocentric and capitalist beliefs about the economy of meaning. This book gathers together fists, guts and brains to gain a deeper understanding of the non-verbal roots of dialogue.
Anna Zett (b. 1983, Leipzig) is an artist, writer and maker of films and radio plays. Their work combines historical research and poetic form with a playful, dialogic practice. In 2014 they released two videos dealing with extinct animals as emblems of colonial capitalism in the New World, which were screened widely in the context of contemporary art. In recent years, their research into the cosmology of scientific modernism has focused on post-communist trouble, industrialism and the German heritage of violence. Formally, their artistic emphasis moves towards rhythm, sound and the human body’s capacity to improvise verbal and non-verbal communication. Zett has written and directed two experimental radio plays for German public radio, and (co-) hosted participatory formats of storytelling, discourse and choreography. Artificial Gut Feeling is their first book. They live in Berlin.
