Bezoar Delinqxenz
2023
Artist Novel, 17,5 x 11 cm, 103 p., language: English, publisher: Sternberg Press, London, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, ISBN: 978-3-95679-653-1.
Materials:
Collection: Collectie M HKA.
Literary synopsis
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, Bezoar Delinqxenz brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments to forge a transnational narrative that trips through the incompatible fantasies of rationality and civilization, with wormholes through ancient tales, recent cinema, plain-wrong art histories, and pirated philosophical reflections.
Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice
The novel was conceptualised in parallel with a video project of mine called GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE (2022). They are connected in terms of content, but not dependent, ie. both video and book can be seen/read without referring to one another. There is a partial content overlap; images from the video have been used in the book, and some text in the book appears in the video as well.
Authorship: Artist Author.
Creative Strategy: Artwork-Novel Parallel Lives.
Genre: Historical fiction, Theory-Fiction.
Publishing: Art Books Publishing House, Public Institution.
Theme: Enchantment, Network Societies, Nihilism, Paranoia, Post-Humanism, Religion, Subculture, Technology.
