Stevie Bothor…
…comes from acting and now works as an artistic auto ethnographic researcher. Stevie works through Game and Garden, with props (objects), space, embodiment and fellow players (people). Stevie documents this with the tools of photography, text, drawing and installations that Stevie calls Zeiträume. Stevie lives in Berlin.
Currently Stevie is playing Elsewhere a 64-week pervasive game, entered through a glitch. Across 64 chapters and 105 voices, the player traces remontantFury, an aesthetic of aging and being other thought as resistance and builds garden from what is found.
Each week, a timestamp is posted on Substack confirming the chapter was played. An independent chronicler documents the 64 weeks on Instagram — without Stevie's knowledge of what is posted there.
There is only one rule to enter: everything is allowed except abandoning resistance.
Paradis Sauvage …
is the Studio where Stevie researches and collects what is discovered. Fragmentary assortments without any claim to completeness. Stevie researches and collects radically subjective.
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/E– (Elsewhere) | 2020– ( to approximately ) 2028
→ *The connection between person and nature* | The aesthetic of an alternative aging of female socialised individuals*
→ 105 Interviews, 648 days Elsewhere
→ 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)
RFgoesElsewhere (2025-2027)