**Links to**: [[Holes]], [[No anus]], [[Trypophobia]], [[Topology]], [[Identity operator]], [[Shirime]], [[Askance]], [[The Solar Anus]], [[P3]], [[Rib]], [[The Human as a Torus]], [[Colonialoscopy]], etc.
![[Shirime by Y No Buson-adapted by Z. Fork .gif]]
<small>Shirime (尻目), by Yosa no Buson, 1754, adapted as a moving image by Zorro Fork, 2023.</small>
# _No Anus/The Comic/Shitshow_
_[Exhibition](https://www.ribrib.nl/no-anus-the-comic-shitshow)_
 
16.11.2024, **20:00** & 17.11.2024, **17:00**
On 16 November at 20:00, there will be the opening of the exhibition and a discussion. On 17 November at 17:00, Alexandra Mason, Mattin and Inigo Wilkins will host a presentation and discussion, which will be led by Mason.
 
This short exhibition-performance is a collaboration between S. de Jager, Zorro Fork, Alexandra Mason, and Oli Surel. It weaves together works dealing with the strange condition of _being-without-an-anus_ and the poetic intersection of slapstick and horror. Inigo Wilkins and Mattin textually contribute to the exhibition theme as part of their research on the idea of the shitshow as a concept for critique. Alexandra Mason will be in conversation with them.
**Zorro Fork** has been exploring the theme of “No Anus” for many years, perhaps ever since their earliest memories. As a young child, Fork was deeply frightened by defecation, perceiving it as a part of themselves being lost forever. This fear of dissipation, a concept that troubles all beings, particularly those first coming to terms with it, became a central theme in their work. Fork’s devotion to this “bottomless pit” culminated in the imagery of an ouroboros not devouring its own tail, but as becoming its own tongue, a concept they introduced in _[Contraption](https://n-o.ooo/003+%F0%9D%90%8F%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%9A-%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%9C%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%A6%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%9C+%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%B1%F0%9D%90%AD+%F0%9D%90%A9%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%AE%F0%9D%90%9C%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%A7%F0%9D%90%AC/%F0%9D%99%B2%F0%9D%99%BE%F0%9D%99%BD%F0%9D%9A%83%F0%9D%9A%81%F0%9D%99%B0%F0%9D%99%BF%F0%9D%9A%83%F0%9D%99%B8%F0%9D%99%BE%F0%9D%99%BD)_ (2010-2011). This vision evolved further in _[MANUAL OVERRIDE](https://studio-47.org/de_jager/)_ (2012-2013), a piece that was showcased at an event hosted in Berlin by the Jan van Eyck Alumni Association. In this piece, Fork presented a topological description of “the human as a torus” (a description that made Tzuchien Tho — who has translated Oli Surel’s _The Comic_ into Mandarin — laugh his ass off).
Fork continued to delve into this theme, investigating the presence/absence of anus through a variety of lenses: Coil’s explorations via Bataille, black holes (as seen in _The Pattern Butcher_, forthcoming), the specter of the "shirime", the Mesoamerican “gente sin ano”, closed and open systems, capitalism, gluttony, and more.
For this exhibition, Fork has contributed a slide projection that blends documentary photography with images of clay tori they have sculpted, alongside a “holy anusless” sculpture — an angelic Thai Thepphanom figure that Fork rescued from a trash heap in Charlois, nurturing this discarded being back to presence — and accompanying text.
**Oli Surel**’s _The Comic_ emerged from a series of sessions guided by Cunninghamian chance procedures for movement. Over a month of experimentation, primed by a soundscape of reworked “IDM” motifs, laugh tracks, syncopated Americana, and Foley from modernist burlesque cinema, Surel captured the parameters and fictional excess of these sessions through longer form recordings. In the late summer of 2024, he revisited and synthesized these recordings into text, creating _The Comic_ — a poetic score/worldette (in English, French, and Mandarin) where an undercurrent of horror unsettles the boundaries of slapstick. As a gift to Rib, Surel will also present a banner featuring the dog (H)uma(n) (†2022) in a blissful moment of rest, drawing on a niche Nordic meme template.
**Alexandra Mason**, **Inigo Wilkins**, and **Mattin** will discuss shitshow theory and the “enshittification” of social life.
 
>_A famous Rotterdam artist_ _wanted to place an anus sculpture in Charlois, but it was prevented as Charlois has stigmas, it is poor, there’s criminality, etc., and it would not be appropriate.
>Somehow I was trying to smoothly pass from Rib to “No Anus”... Why was Eve made from Adam’s rib and not from his anus?
>There’s also a childhood story whose source and author I cannot remember. Could it be the product of my imagination? Certainly, it has haunted and informed me all along in my life decisions. It is said that some villain from the Middle Ages in Iran was the product of Satan copulating with the villain's mom. As he entered middle age, he felt increasingly sick in his stomach and called the doctor. The doctor then attached a small piece of raw meat to a thread and slowly lowered it into his bowels. 10 minutes later he pulled the meat out and saw to his shock that it was swarmed by hundreds of small fly larvae. The villain was rotting from the inside. The conclusion: sons of Satan by default miss an anus and thus cannot defecate.
>Maziar Afrassiabi.
 
**S. de Jager** is always coming back to Rib.
**Zorro Fork** is the child of Paul Bas. Originally framed as a simpler entity than it has become, Zorro Fork comments on and overviews some of the activities that are relevant to the topics at hand, and on the other hand. The multitude shall decide.
**Oli Surel** is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Past collaborators include Glass Bead, NMMMM Berlin, Treignac Projet, thislight.org, ztscrpt, Cittipunkt, misted.cc.
**Mattin** is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production.
**Inigo Wilkins** is a philosopher working across many disciplines. He is co-director of the online journal and research platform Glass Bead, of the Noise Research Union, and SSTRAPP. His forthcoming book is called _Irreversible Noise (Urbanomic)_.
**Alexandra Mason**’s work and research includes cultural criticism and touches on themes such as the division between public and private, underground networks and alternative economies, and eroticism as it relates to personal and collective forms of desire. She completed her Master’s degree at CUNY’s School for Labor and Urban Studies and her undergraduate degree at The New School. Alexandra has given talks for Seattle’s Red May, Class of Interpretation in Prague, and Regenerative Feedback. She has taught classes for The New Centre for Research and Practice. Her work and thoughts have been featured in High Tech: A Magazine by Highsnobiety, Glass Bead, and she has worked on various projects with Anon, an altwoke collective. More of her essays can currently be found at [www.sadgirltheory.com](https://sadgirltheory.com/).
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Tori with skin texture of foot injury, all repeating on slides
With subtitles
find notes and screenshots from la gente sin ano before, that you already had
https://www.todacolombia.com/etnias-de-colombia/grupos-indigenas/ticuna.html