Live performance by
Catherine Hoffmann
RSVP: 3pm, 5pm & 7:30pm - Saturday 12th of July - at VSSL Studio
Documentation of Wormhole Of Our Formation by Catherine Hoffmann at VSSL Studio as part of Deptford X. Photographed by Eda Sancakdar.
Part absurdist ritual attempting control, part elemental exorcism, WORMHOLE OF OUR FORMATION is a vertiginous road trip through collapse – mental, environmental, economic – driven by unyielding text through warped music and howling storms.
A raw, hallucinatory performance that tears through the psychic wreckage of Breakdown Britain. This is a ride into the fragmentation of the self as Tetley tea bags pile up and scrambled eggs congeal. In debt and displaced, Hoffmann charts a personal odyssey across red-alert storm zones, B&Bs, motorway shutdowns, and the disorienting landscapes of austerity and ageing.
A raw, hallucinatory performance that tears through the psychic wreckage of Breakdown Britain. This is a ride into the fragmentation of the self as Tetley tea bags pile up and scrambled eggs congeal. In debt and displaced, Hoffmann charts a personal odyssey across red-alert storm zones, B&Bs, motorway shutdowns, and the disorienting landscapes of austerity and ageing.
Armed with a wind machine, searing text, sonic chaos and ritual tremors, Hoffmann conjures a storm from the inside out.
No solace. No resolve.
Just ridiculous and horrifying monotony until a fissure – shuddering open – towards possible release.
A fizzing, visceral embodiment of crisis and catharsis, Wormhole persists. It shakes you. Bleeds. Trembles. Collapses. Re-forms.
No solace. No resolve.
Just ridiculous and horrifying monotony until a fissure – shuddering open – towards possible release.
A fizzing, visceral embodiment of crisis and catharsis, Wormhole persists. It shakes you. Bleeds. Trembles. Collapses. Re-forms.
Documentation of Wormhole Of Our Formation by Catherine Hoffmann at VSSL Studio as part of Deptford X. Photographed by Eda Sancakdar.
Documentation of Wormhole Of Our Formation by Catherine Hoffmann at VSSL Studio as part of Deptford X. Photographed by Eda Sancakdar.
Booking Information
Saturday12th July, 15.00, 17.00 & 19.30 at VSSL Studio
during the opening weekend of Deptford X.
︎︎︎ RSVPs essential - Book tickets HERE
"No sweeteners offered. This is how it is. No relief." - Diarmuid Hester
Documentation of Wormhole Of Our Formation by Catherine Hoffmann at VSSL Studio as part of Deptford X. Photographed by Eda Sancakdar.
Documentation of Wormhole Of Our Formation by Catherine Hoffmann at VSSL Studio as part of Deptford X. Photographed by Eda Sancakdar.
Buy Artworks
As compliment to the live iteration of WORMHOLE OF OUR FORMATION, Hoffmann has produced a series of six limited edition, A5 prints - available for purchase throughout the ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE programme.
Prints 1 to 6 (pictured above) are priced at £130 ea. For all sales enquiries please contact the artist directly HERE
About Catherine Hoffmann
Described as an elemental weather system Catherine takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work using text, music, choreography, video and participation - sitting in between live art, cabaret and performance. In a DIY approach and usually with absurdism she tackles personal, autobiographical material to shine a light on social issues.
Most of her work could be seen as some kind of humiliating act, revealing aspects such as shame, guilt, poverty, loss, gynaecological and mental health. She ventures into vulnerable terrain using humour and irreverence as a tool, to open up dialogue, embracing the desire for collective healing in our challenging contemporary lives.
Mainly creating solo shows as well as interactive intimate works, she also collaborates with Florence Peake and has shown in festivals, theatres, art galleries, cabaret events, on night buses, in bars and clubs throughout the UK and Europe.
In 2023 she created an immersive version of ‘Wormhole of our Formation’ using VR 360 film at UCA in Canterbury supported by ACE, the Hi3 Network, Wysing Arts centre and Cambridge Junction. In 2022 she toured ‘Cyst-er Act’ to Germany, to Summerhall at the Edinburgh fringe festival and the Southbank centre. In 2017/18 she toured the UK with ‘Free Lunch with the Stench Wench’ – a solo exploring shame in relation to class and poverty. Her texts ‘Whatever happened to the Glory Days’? And ‘Ten tips on being Feckless and Poor..’ are printed by LADA and Unbound books.
www.cathoffmann.com
Credits
WORMHOLE OF OUR FORMATION has been made possible with support from Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction, Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Centre, and Hi3 Network with Screen South. In collaboration with VSSL Studio and Deptford X.
Created by: Catherine Hoffmann
Dramaturg: Eirini Kartsaki
Pearled neck brace and dress by: Lara Buffard
Choreographic Support: Florence Peake
Additional Sound Support: Lottie Poulet, Geoffrey Chambers
Lights: Marty Langthorne
Production Assistants: Ash McNaughton, Mine Kaplangi
Looking for the Rain written by: James Gabriel Leo Lavelle, Jack Leonard, Mark Lanegan, Matthew Puffet
Vocals: Catherine Hoffmann
Thanks to: Tink Flaherty, Katy Baird, Daniel Oliver, Eve Stainton, Gavin Roberts, Jules Deering, Ella Gamble, Sahara Huang, Tim Spooner, Benjamin Sebastian
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