Ötza is a Neolithic mummy who, in her artistic practice, tries to connect the worlds of fan fiction and entrepreneurship. Her signature features are her long blonde hair (briefly replaced by a platinum bob in chapter III), her natural lip flip, and her pronounced thigh gap, regardless of her age and the increasingly hard-to-hide traces of decay on her complexion. Equally fascinating are her fanfiction pieces, in which Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte meet semantics, and a post-Marxist, posthumanist revolt takes on a mute form in a yogic silent retreat inspired by the magazine Tiqqun.
Ötza fights the regime of truth in her work, in her biography, and in courtrooms alike. After a not-too-successful trial for tax fraud and copyright infringement, she does not cease searching for ancillary incomes and tax havens. While the richest 1% tend to place their assets in Caribbean companies and offshore funds, the mummy, who must spend a significant part of her time in a cryogenic chamber, looks for colder places. Perhaps the journey to this tax Arcadia, which is just beginning at Poznań’s galeria skala, will one day end in her own museum in a fiscally friendly Swiss village nestled among Alpine glaciers.

Ötza is written and performed by artist Levi van Gelder (1995), and created in collaboration with costume designer Leila El Alaoui (1995)

The exhibition is co-financed by the Culture Department of the City of Poznań and the Culture Department of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship with headquarters at the Marshal’s Office of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship in Poznań.