CHAINS OF MANIA

Video- & Sound- Environment with mobile Projection

Text CHAINS OF MANIA_Matthew Partridge_2021

CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | 2020 | excerpt of the documentation

CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | October 2020 | complete Performance | video documentation

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Kesselhalle | Kraftwerk Bille | Oktober 2020

with the friendly support of the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg

Matthew Partridge about Chains of Mania :

It strikes me that Josephin Böttger brings an inspired and excitingly unpredictable dimension into the field of video installation or video environments. Chains of Mania is an extraordinary piece, and at the same time just a further trophy in her idiosyncratic development as an artist. She heavily underscores the meaning of “specific” in the so easily adduced term “site-specific art”. The event actually felt as if the former Bille power station had been built foresightedly to host and stage Böttger’s work of multiple projections. Exploring a subtle hybrid of bricolage, collage and pastiche, she creates ostensibly narrative settings that are equally abstract and physically sculptural, cerebral yet sensuous, as well as anecdotal and comic – at times even verging on the hilarious. I have always been taken by her lo-tech, yet sci-fi expeditions into absurdity which reveal philosophical depths and a surreal love of detail. Projected light is Böttger’s flying carpet: on the shining beams of her obsessive imagination we are transported into the prolific, untamed realms of dream and otherness.

Hamburg 2021 (excerpt of the text)