Whilst making the multi media project “Mapping Perception” Andrew Kötting discovered this found footage, originating from somewhere in France and felt compelled to incorporating it into a piece of work. There is a direct correlation with his interests in the “normal” and the “abnormal”, the “valid” and the “invalid”, the “worthy” and the “unworthy” that has informed a lot of his work. Designed originally to run on a loop in a gallery with music provided by Toby McMillan.
Andrew Kötting
Andrew Kötting, born in Elmstead Woods in 1959, is a British award-winning artist, filmmaker and Professor of Time-Based Media at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. After leaving school he worked as a scrap metal dealer and then as a failed lumberjack in Scandinavia before returning to study for a BA in Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art & Design and thereafter graduating with an MA from The Slade in London. He has made over a hundred short films, often in collaboration with artists, writers, dancers and performers, which have been awarded prizes at international film festivals. He currently tries to live and work between Hastings on the south coast of England and Fougax-et-Barrineuf in the forests of the French Pyrenees, producing performances, installations, bookworks, Cds and vinyls, often in collaboration with his daughter Eden.
