Ötza: The Skinny Body Without Organs

Ötza is a 5300-year-old cryodesiccated fanfiction writer from the Neolithic, an advocate for prehistoric literacy and a self-proclaimed connoisseur of post-historical theory-fiction. This skinny reader entails ten bite-sized chapters of Ötza meta- textualized fanfiction vignettes. As her corporeal counterpart is locked in a cooling cell at the Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, her writings are hopeful yearnings for counterfactual salvation from her fate of archaeological conservation, and an attempt to rewrite the narrative (unfairly) extrapolated from scientific reconstructions. Ötza is written and performed by artist Levi van Gelder (1995), who lives and works in Amsterdam.