Fette Sans

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A metal cable tie and a gold plated flat chained necklace joined together at last
A gdr polizei führungskette adorned with charms of various origins and properties laid flat on a grey sheet
George the cat poses proudly among rocks displayed on the floor over a grey cardboard sheet. There is opal, a very large obsidian, smoky quartz, rainbow fluoride, shunginte, etc
Two books on a table, one is by Nate Lippens, Ripcord and the other by Peter Brunette and David Wills, Screen/Play, with George the cat sleeping next to them in his cardboard box
A little stack of printed white A4 pages are nailed to a white wall and if you zoom in you may be able to catch a few of the words I wrote
The PDF of the lecture I will give tonight at Jagoda in Zagreb opened on my laptop's screen with various images, the larger top one is a still from the film The Face of Another (1966), the bottom ones show two phone screens with images of a glory hole, and a hand touching a page from the book hello, world? (2024). It reads: "The phone, It's curves, its thin body, its joyful metallic ping, its light and reassuring presence. Is the phone the stand-in for the body of the absent lover, or is the device itself the lover."
A book is open to a collage made by me which reads in black letraset "NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN GERMANY" roughly painted around in green. The text is a quote from the film The American Soldier by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1966). A hand wearing a art-handling white glove touches the page before
Film still from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The American Soldier, 1970. Karl Scheydt, wearing a suit and a hat is behind the wheel of a convertible. His face isn't recognizable through the windshield reflecting the sky. Below, the subtitles read: "Nothing even happens in Germany."
The wall and table of my studio filled with printed images and texts
My hand holding a large and rusty metal ring connected to a long nail that use to be a part of a boat
Two hands holding a phone opened to an article on Elon Musk: "I didn't buy Twitter for political or business reasons but I bought it for Amber Heard. I wanted to give it to her as a Valentine's Day gift but she broke up with me before Valentine's Day when she found a new boyfriend on Twitter. After she broke up with me, I banned her from Twitter and named it X."
Printed essay by Mike Kelley, Playing with Dead Things - On The Uncanny, with underlined passages by Fette: We cannot help but see the mannequin as being castrated, a ludicrous idea to apply to something that never had genitals. And: by the artist John Duncan called Blond Date. The work consisted of Duncan having sex with a human corpse, and was presented in the form of an audiotape as a kind of concrete music. Duncan said of the experience "one of the things this piece showed me was that people don't accept death. Until the body is completely dust, people can't accept the fact that someone is dead. The me the corpse was like solid matter that had nothing to do with the person who was occupying it." Underneath is Fette's writing which reads "corpse image and "resulting work" is a sound piece. Female as corpse as doll as statue ..."
An open folder with two A4 printed pages. On the left is a black and white photo-collage by and of Marcel Duchamp's installation "Étant donnés (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas)" taken from his instructions manual on how to rebuild it. On the right is a color photograph showing two persons in full body protective suits and masks on each side of the mummy of an ancient Inca teenage girl sitting atop of a circle display. Her clothes cover her body and her head is tilted down
The face of Fette is turned three quarter to the right. Her eyes are closed and on top of her eyelids are taped cutouts of her eyes printed in color, they float, looking in different directions, and give off a silly, crazed look
An A4 page taped to a wall with a black and white photograph by Ed Templeton showing a young person holding their glass eye in their left hand while their eyelid is shut to the missing eye
A laptop is open to a screen capture of the 1987 film White of the Eye. There is the head of a blonde white woman shoved by a gloved hand into a TV monitor, breaking its glass. On the keyboard of the laptop there is an A4 page with in its center, a print of a 1915 photograph of the Japanese magician Shokyokusai Tenkatsu dressed as Salomé with the head of John the Baptist facing her
White personne with dark hair and glasses is taking a self-portrait in the mirror of a toilet with their phone in front of their face. They are wearing dark grey jeans and an olive green shirt that spells in red in Arabic, fuck the police
Against a window, my hand is holding a color photograph taken from a balcony full of red geraniums. Behind the flowers are large concrete silos and a pipe. The photograph is rephotographed at the same location and now the silos are gone but the pipe remains. Blurry in the distance, there is the sea.
A "gossip mirror" hung on a window is photographed from the inside of a house, then printed in black and white on paper and taped to a concrete wall