(2019–)

In a world made strange by human action, subjects struggle to cohere. Seas rise, art feeds AI, all that is solid melts into banks. We’re suspended in a hurricane with our dining table and chablis 10,000 meters in the air, telling stories of the ground. Perhaps it’s always been this way. Schall is still flüssig, we can sink in it and never drown. An image, too; a mark; an internet; a neural net. For every question, infinite answers, some of them right, or right for now.

Proposing that our polycrisis is at heart a crisis of imagination, the Meltiverse project de- and re-constructs the given using image, text, and sound. Meltiverse – Teil 1, an upcoming solo exhibition, contains the first part of this research: video installations, drawings, wearables, 3D renders, excerpts from a novel, and modified instruments.

The works draw on lived trans* experience, low theory, and the ever-presence of the archive. Plato worried writing would destroy memory and curb imagination: we may not be so different in our concerns. While men with goggle toys sell us our world but worse, The Meltiverse asks: what stories of difference we might tell instead? What might a monster know that we could learn? What was your original face before your parents were born?

Meltiverse: Teil 1 will be exhibited at Galerie Peter Gaugy during Vienna Art Week, November 10-17, 2023, with readings and a short concert to be announced.

Reverse Cowgirl β will show at brut Wien on November 26-28. Tickets here

The Meltiverse project is generously supported by the Ministry for Inner Images, whose entirely fictional activities generously support the mission of the Department of Performance Quality, whose real activities generously support the generous support of the Ministry for Inner Images, for which we thank them, truly.