CHAINS OF MANIA

October 2020 Kraftwerk Bille / Kesselhalle

Josephin Böttger | concept/video/mobile projection
Carolin Jüngst | performance
Felix Kubin | sound
Bernhard Westermann |costume
Willie Schumann | video- and photo documentation

„The very structure of the space is diagrammatically illuminated in its constituent components: we find ourselves entering the draft plan of the building, a blueprint of radiant light. The interior of the building has been cloned as a synchronous doppelgänger that camouflages the original. We are walking through a simulation of the terrain almost – but only almost – perfectly superimposed on the original. There is a sense of lost gravity, a rootlessness of the location which could now be almost anywhere in the universe or in the fathomless orbits of the psyche. There is stuff to discover, stuff to fix. As Mark Fisher says in his hauntological reference to depression: this place is a “state of mind, a (neuro)philosophical (dis)position”. The inner architecture of the soft apparatus of consciousness is as impenetrable as the outer universe, inhabited by spectres of the past, by a nostalgia for lost futures.“
Excerpt of the text by Matthew Partridge

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