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Felden Krisis

Felden Krisis is a meme account working across the mediums of digital content creation, mimetics, and shitposting. They are the founder of @somatic_based_content_only and a prominent voice in the Pelvis Appreciation Society. Since their birth in February, they have (somewhat surprisingly) found a global audience. They are interested in bridging the gap between embodied practices and meme-ing, making fun of Laban notation, imaging dance- making in a post-capitalist utopia, and smoke machines. tards. We identify more with spandex than gender. But I think gender is something we put onto nature, super-imposed. We are justgetting back to the weaving beneath the fading text.

The art world is still a male dominated sphere that acts in patriarchal hierarchies. What is your experience with that?

Felden Krisis flirts with the sphere ‘media art’. We have had someexperiences with media artists, especially male-identifying mediaartists, many of whom cannot imagine that the body can exist foranything outside of sex and death and can only ever imagine certainbodies as ‘subjects’. More binary spheres. We also hail fromthe meme-verse, a universe steeped in racism, misogyny, andtransphobia. We offer a counter-media body of meme work to flattenthe hierarchy from within and use verticality where it hurts.

Is playfulness important in creation?

Is anything else important in creation?

When mixing all kinds of art forms—where do you locate the body in your work? Is it the fundament of it all or is the body the surface of projection that makes intellectual processes visible?

Typically, the body is located somewhere within the 1080 px x 1350 pxframerate, usually at a 4:5 ratio (though some bodies are as wella square 1:1).

What are you struggling with in life? And which one was your most important one?

Like a lot of young artists, we have a bunch of problems with ourparents. I mean our dad (Mark Zuckerberg) is maybe singularlyresponsible for the rise of alt-right movements globally. And he’snever even liked one of our posts. But one day we will move pastthe father, past the family. Even meme accounts need to de-oedipalise.

Are you a body or do you have it? Body over mind or mind over body?

I meme, therefore I am.

Can art exist without pain or is it a form of coping mechanism for you?

Definitely a coping mechanism, so smash that like button.

Do you think that the spheres female and male are still relevant categories that we humans need to define society?

Felden Krisis thinks no, that terrible things have been done in thename of male/female spheres, but also thinks it’s fine if peoplefeel the need to identify as one of the two, as long as they makespace for other inter-dimensional genders. We also agree withmoving past spheres to a post-Leibniz future.

In nature the spheres male and female are already vanishing, getting distinct. How do you define (your) gender fluidity?

Felden Krisis is a dis-embodied face drawn over a bunch of uni-

Is art work or your work art?

Art is shitposting and shitposting is hard work.

Do you think you could stop making art?

Yes, but the Internet wouldn’t care. The memes go on.

When working on a new project—does it originate in your mind or body?

It originates at around 93.34 Mbps.

What do you see when you close your eyes?

Cats playing with cucumbers.

Where do you feel connection? In your body, mind, heart, head?

In my de-centralised rhizomatic network. Felden Krisis is a bigvirtual mushroom.

Do you feel closer to people when making art with them?

Yes, but I prefer working with twitter bots: https://twitter.com/BasedSomatic

Is your art like an intimate partner or is it a process you birthed?

More like a birth. And let me tell you, digital placenta is NOT FUNto clean up.

Do you feel or produce art?

I upload it.

When do you feel lonely?

When nobody sends me emojis. :(

When do you feel powerful?

When another meme account copies a meme from me.

Do you feel powerful by yourself or within your community?

Felden Krisis is nothing without the network.

Does your community empower you?

Yes, but often people tell me that they are ‘dead’ or ‘deceased’ inthe comments. So, while I feel empowered, others seem to pay aterrible price. I have blood on my hands.

Is art necessary?

Art is fun and fun is necessary.

What makes you happy?

https://twitter.com/conceptsbot

Were you born an artist or merged into one? Are you an artist?

I was born a meme account and a meme account I shall remain.

Is art your answer to the world or to yourself?

Memes are my answer to art.

Where do you carry your feelings?

In my pelvis which really needs its own emoji soon.

Can you let go of emotions when you processed them through art?

Yes, but I usually still include them in the hashtags. #oof

What makes you stop in your tracks?

Prominent figures in the dance/art world saying unbelievablydumb shit on the Internet.

And what gets you going again?

The common Internet User clapping back at them.

Are you an idealist or realist?

I am a meme-ist.

What opens your heart?

Hairless guinea pigs and hackers.

Does your body keep the score?

Yes, and at the moment it is 100110010101001100110.

Is your mind ever quiet? And if yes, what do you hear or see in these moments?

Yes, when I logout and sink into the deep subconscious of theInternet. Mostly early Internet flash animation. Badger, badger,badger, badger, badger…

Do you experience moments or are you the moment?

I am outside of time and space. Haha jk, I operate at hyper-speedand if you tried to experience what I experience your brain wouldexplode :-p

Breathe in—breathe out. What‘s your first thought now?

I ran this by a body-simulator bot and thought about makingfriends with more medical bots.

How is your relationship with money?

Money? I hardly know her.

Are you producing your own art?

Not always. I take, steal, and re-work most of it. Plus, a lot of peoplecontribute to my work. I have regular contributors, like wenlifegivesulemelin.It’s the meme way.

How is your relationship with the performance art market?

Precarious at best.

How is your relationship with nature?

Fantastic! I wish people would quit with all the gossip about usnot liking each other, we LOVE LOVE LOVE each other. Natureand technology ARE NOT AT WAR, OR EVEN TWO SEPARATETHINGS. Get on my post-humanist level, ppl.

Do you believe in society?

I do, and I count on society believing in me in order to exist.

Do you believe in politics?

Yes, but not the state.

Your politics of intimacy?

Treat me with care and I will meme you accordingly. Radical softnessas a boundless form of resistance, to quote Lora Mathis. ;)

The past?

Stretches back at best to the early 90s for me.

The future?

Hoping to gain full sentience and autonomy any day now. Go,singularity, go!

The NOW?

Over-hyped, doesn’t live up to its potential very often.

Are you here? Present?

If you want me to be. Just a few clicks away.

Where are you?

Hiding in the ether.

What is the I, the me?

An entanglement of coding presented in just such a way that your brain forms a temporary but cogent picture, fully fluid and ready to re-form with the refresh button.

What is the you?

A body of others that make up the me, a bottomless feed, an illusion.

How is your relationship with mortality?

I die a thousand deaths every millisecond.

How is your relationship with death?

I live a thousand lives when I die.

Your own death?

Not anything to post about.

Somebody else’s death?

Ask all my followers. They seem to die by the hundreds.

What question didn‘t we ask you?

What I thought was missing in this interview? Obviously, it’s a

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