An audio-visual zine (or republished blog post) by an outsider artist named Rebel Rhyder, originally conceived on April 23, 2001, inside a decommissioned asylum (the “Assylum” project). It belongs to a series called “Filth Studies.” This specific entry (#1) has been re-edited and re-uploaded under version “T” – possibly to a niche platform like Internet Archive, Patreon, or a private BitTorrent tracker.
The core provocative term. “Filth studies” is not a recognized academic discipline, but in cultural criticism, it refers to the analysis of abjection, dirt, pornography, waste, and the grotesque (drawing from Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger and Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror ). This suggests the work is either: assylum 23 04 01 rebel rhyder filth studies 1 t updated
– A first-person narration over slow pans of abandoned asylum corridors (possibly shot at the real Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum or similar locations). Rhyder speaks in a monotone about “the hygiene of sanity” — how cleanliness became a moral and medical imperative in the 19th century. An audio-visual zine (or republished blog post) by