Stevie Bothor…
…researches by internalising and performing. STEVIE surrounds themself with props (objects), space, their craft (embodiment) and fellow players (people). STEVIE documents this with the tools of photography, text, drawing and installations that they call Zeiträume. STEVIE lives in Berlin.
Currently STEVIE is preparing to enter the state of 'Otherness' for 648 days starting in September, in order to distill an aesthetic of aging otherness (called remontantFury, a term coined by Stevie)- from 101 in-depth interviews with people socialized as female - and to create a garden based on this very aesthetic."
STEVIE represents themself.
Paradis Sauvage …
is the vivid Archive where STEVIE researches and collects what STEVIE discovers. Fragmentary assortments without any claim to completeness. STEVIE researches and collects radically subjectively.
The field studies are divided as follows:
Number_ParadisSauvage: Meta/respective study.
So far, STEVIE has been | and still is | studying 4 different fields:
01_PS:M/M– (Maedchen) | 2004–2012
→ *The connection between object and person* | The subject
→ Objects used as agents of identity
→ Character: Daria the Meta Mädchen
→ Medium: 64 Things
↓
02_PS:M/G– (Game) | 2012–2018
→ *The connection between person and object* | The game
→ Playing field as a cognitive space
→ Character: Homo Ludens
→ Medium: Gesellschaftsspiel (Parlour game)
↓
03_PS:M/I– (Island) | 2018–2020
→ *The connection between nature and person* | The reclaimed Paradise
→ Island as a space for discovery
→ squat the decaying Paradise: not to possess it, but to keep it from vanishing.”
→ Character: Anonymous Researcher
→ Medium: squatting Paradise
↓
04_PS:M/O– (Otherness) | 2020– ( to approximately ) 2027
→ *The connection between person and nature* | The aesthetic of aging otherness*
→ 101 Interviews, 648 days (in the) Otherness
→ Development of a previously non-existent aesthetic
→ Character: rF (remontantFury)
→ Medium: garden (as a walk-in archive)
Since 2012 STEVIE experiences every year a different state of interest. So far embodied Topics:
the year of…
...Being24|7Online (2008-2009)
BeingPoly (2011-2012)
(first official fieldwork) AbandonmentOfChemicalAdditives [(2012-2013)
GoingZeroWaste (2013-2014)
LivingWithoutMoney (2014-2015)
BeggingForMoney (2015-2016 | canceled after 2 Month)
NoLies (2016-2017)
LivingALifeOfTheHomoLudens (2017-2018)
SquattingParadise (2018-2019)
DoNotUseAnyMeansOfTransport (2019 | 3 month experience )
RadicalAging (LettingTheIdeaOf YourSelfGo) (2020)
TheBeautifulStrongWoman (2021-2022)
TheYearsOfTakingAPause (2022-2024)
MappingtheLandonInstagram (2024-2025)
RFgoesOtherness (2025-2027)
TheOtherness | Instagram
coming soon