ÖTZA

OBJET PETIT Ö

First Edition

Publ. by Road House, May 2026

Softcover (11 cm x 18 cm)

ISBN 978-2-488450-09-6

92 Pages

100 copies

Price: 12 € (+P&P)

Edited by Maia Kenney, Aidan Hoyle, Anthony Stephinson

Ötza is a 5300-year-old cryodesiccated fan fiction writer from the Neolithic, an advocate for prehistoric literacy and a self-proclaimed connoisseur of post-historical theory-fiction. Locked in a cooling cell at the South Tyrol 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 and created in collaboration with costume designer and stylist Leila El Alaoui.