Dynamo Lines / Trapez
September 12 – 15, 2013
Screening, Exhibition, Performance Art
About the Program
grunt gallery and New Forms Festival present Dynamo Lines, a video, sound, and live performance by media and installation artist Josephin Böttger. Dynamo Lines looks at the fragmentation of cityscapes caused by social constructs, urban development, traffic, lights, and movement. Three looped video projections depict time-lapsed motion and light from various vantage points of city grids and traffic. The artwork explores the relationship of densely populated areas versus individual movements within fragmented spaces. Working with musician Sergej Tolksdorf, Böttger’s video installation includes footage of actors emerging as a work team, observing busy highway arteries. But their movements are edited so they appear sporadic, contrapunctual to the rhythm and flow of light from the streets. These scenes transition into drawn sequences removing the detail of urban density and simplifying the images into minimalist, white outlines. The live performance uses an archive of sounds that sync with the projections, along with compositions made for particular scenes. The installation and live performance took place at grunt gallery’s Media Lab on September 12, 2013. Dynamo Lines also coincided with SWARM 2013.Josephin Böttger also presented Trapez at New Forms Festival. The video documents the construction work that occurs at a building site; time and reality is distorted by time lapses and drawn elements that blend into the footage. The video examines construction and demolition, both key components of urban development. The soundtrack echoes sounds of construction; the work acts between dance and architecture, the human body shaping the built environment. The projection appears outdoors on various public spaces and building walls like temporary graffiti. This project took place at New Forms Festival, at the Centre for Digital Media, on September 14, 2013.
Identifier
2013.0912 DYNCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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