Thesis Chapters by olivier xx
Choose your own adventures:
This folder contains: a brief overview; instructions for reading this... more Choose your own adventures:
This folder contains: a brief overview; instructions for reading this work; Os; a fool.
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'Have I told you what U.F.O. stands for?'
'U, Fool, olivier.'
This project is textual material that mimics a thing (not an object) that I am trying to understand, which is the UFO Archive.
The UFO Archive, which I attempt to demonstrate in the series of non-linear chapters, is not defined explicitly here. This piece of work addressed queerness, languages, circles, navigations in libraries, archival research, books as objects and souvenirs, and of course, UFOs.
This work is grounded in two books:
1. Betty Hill’s impossible, imponderable, indecipherable book that aliens allegedly gifted.
2. A 1969 bibliography, UFO's and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, written by a Library of Congress bibliographer, Lynn E. Catoe.
This work contains a speculative finding aid, based on traditional finding aids of archives, for locating what resonates for the reader. This work is also published in a physical artistic format that supports the idea of non-linear reading. Although what you are reading right now is a scrollable PDF document, readers are encouraged to click on whichever chapter they resonate with on the finding aid; there is no need to consume the whole piece of work.
Like an archive’s collection, this ‘collection’ (thesis) is ‘arranged’ (unknowable to reader) in ‘series,’ and each ‘series’ contains a bunch of ‘boxes/folders’ (introductions, chapters, back matter, etc.), while the ‘boxes/folders’ have ‘items’ (texts, photographs, etc.).
While U.F.O.s hover in and out of fringe culture, their truth value is being explored and reclaim... more While U.F.O.s hover in and out of fringe culture, their truth value is being explored and reclaimed by contemporary artists and curators who happen to be believers and investigators of ufology and the occult. The case studies of this paper on Tobias Selnaes Markussen, Sara Brincher Galbiati and Peter Helles Eriksen from Phenomena Collective, Adrian Pijoan, Tony Oursler, and Aaron Moulton demonstrate how specific narratives of truth are constantly constructed around U.F.O. photographs, and how these images are used as forms of evidentiary proof. This paper investigated the formation of this “truth” in U.F.O. photographs and exhibitions of them, and explored how this “truth” exists in the ways in which humans are expanding mythologies about ufology as well as investing energy into it. Moreover, through the acknowledgement of the study of U.F.O. and performance of this discourse, “truth” as value is conveyed and consumed.
Papers by olivier xx
'Bigfoot is dead! Long live Bigfoot!' is an experimental critical essay and manifesto, exploring ... more 'Bigfoot is dead! Long live Bigfoot!' is an experimental critical essay and manifesto, exploring alternative ways to address cryptozoology, instead of an empirical scientific definite approach. It is not a seek for Bigfoot. It is not a debunking piece. It is not a sceptic review. It focuses on the act of failure around hunting Bigfoot, from failing to be named, to failing to be seen on screen, to failing finding home, to Bigfoot hunter failing to capture Bigfoot. I identified two kinds of Bigfoot - the unhuntable and huntable. My piece is an investigation to the queerness of Bigfoot culture, and ultimately suggesting the Poor Image (Steyerl) is a perfect battleground where the unhuntable Bigfoot, the huntable Bigfoot, hunters, believers and sceptics can roam free altogether.
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Thesis Chapters by olivier xx
This folder contains: a brief overview; instructions for reading this work; Os; a fool.
Ohhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! O….
o….
0…
'Have I told you what U.F.O. stands for?'
'U, Fool, olivier.'
This project is textual material that mimics a thing (not an object) that I am trying to understand, which is the UFO Archive.
The UFO Archive, which I attempt to demonstrate in the series of non-linear chapters, is not defined explicitly here. This piece of work addressed queerness, languages, circles, navigations in libraries, archival research, books as objects and souvenirs, and of course, UFOs.
This work is grounded in two books:
1. Betty Hill’s impossible, imponderable, indecipherable book that aliens allegedly gifted.
2. A 1969 bibliography, UFO's and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, written by a Library of Congress bibliographer, Lynn E. Catoe.
This work contains a speculative finding aid, based on traditional finding aids of archives, for locating what resonates for the reader. This work is also published in a physical artistic format that supports the idea of non-linear reading. Although what you are reading right now is a scrollable PDF document, readers are encouraged to click on whichever chapter they resonate with on the finding aid; there is no need to consume the whole piece of work.
Like an archive’s collection, this ‘collection’ (thesis) is ‘arranged’ (unknowable to reader) in ‘series,’ and each ‘series’ contains a bunch of ‘boxes/folders’ (introductions, chapters, back matter, etc.), while the ‘boxes/folders’ have ‘items’ (texts, photographs, etc.).
Papers by olivier xx
This folder contains: a brief overview; instructions for reading this work; Os; a fool.
Ohhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! O….
o….
0…
'Have I told you what U.F.O. stands for?'
'U, Fool, olivier.'
This project is textual material that mimics a thing (not an object) that I am trying to understand, which is the UFO Archive.
The UFO Archive, which I attempt to demonstrate in the series of non-linear chapters, is not defined explicitly here. This piece of work addressed queerness, languages, circles, navigations in libraries, archival research, books as objects and souvenirs, and of course, UFOs.
This work is grounded in two books:
1. Betty Hill’s impossible, imponderable, indecipherable book that aliens allegedly gifted.
2. A 1969 bibliography, UFO's and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, written by a Library of Congress bibliographer, Lynn E. Catoe.
This work contains a speculative finding aid, based on traditional finding aids of archives, for locating what resonates for the reader. This work is also published in a physical artistic format that supports the idea of non-linear reading. Although what you are reading right now is a scrollable PDF document, readers are encouraged to click on whichever chapter they resonate with on the finding aid; there is no need to consume the whole piece of work.
Like an archive’s collection, this ‘collection’ (thesis) is ‘arranged’ (unknowable to reader) in ‘series,’ and each ‘series’ contains a bunch of ‘boxes/folders’ (introductions, chapters, back matter, etc.), while the ‘boxes/folders’ have ‘items’ (texts, photographs, etc.).