Video- & Sound- Environment with mobile Projection
CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | 2020 | excerpt of the documentation
CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | 2020 | excerpt of the documentation
CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | 2020 | excerpt of the documentation
CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | 2020 | excerpt of the documentation
CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | 2020 | excerpt of the documentation
CHAINS OF MANIA, Kesselhalle, Kraftwerk Bille | October 2020 | complete Performance | video documentation
VIDEOSTILLS
Josephin Böttger | Video/Concept
Carolin Jüngst | Performance
Felix Kubin | Sound
Bernhard Westermann | Costume
Willie Schumann | Documentation
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)