NOGOODS is a moving project space for performance, art and architecture – and discursive practice.
NOGOODS
moves through the cartography of the almost ignoring failure as just another landmark of a continuously changing space.
– a manifesto
NOGOODS
is a moving project space for slippery ideas, repeating failures, collapsing structures, fluid narratives, and cross-disciplinary moods.
NOGOODS
moves through the cartography of the almost ignoring failure as just another landmark of a continuously changing space.
NOGOODS
investigates the multilayeredness of architecture through performative practice.
NOGOODS
questions power dynamics in the construction of space and social fabrics.
NOGOODS
celebrate the joyful discomfort of floating between disciplines and practice.
NOGOODS
builds architectures through performative discourse, speaking, writing, listening and play.
NOGOODS
assembles image, text, letter and thought.
NOGOODS
is the chaotic dissolving of emerging shapes, in a process of carving space
NOGOODS
stands for no goods – for the non tangible, for the non graspable and for the no good.
NOGOODS
is no good.
NOGOODS
stands against the logics of continuous production by actively searching for alternative images, thoughts, ideas and practices – those that are successful and those that are flawed.
Especially those that are flawed.
NOGOODS
wants to investigate the composition of the imaginary. Immaterial work is work / thought is experience / experience is memory.
NOGOODS
is the question of what stands behind, beyond, next to the material, the built.
NOGOODS is a space
NOGOODS is a void
NOGOODS is collective
NOGOODS is no good.
NOGOODS
is where we share conversations – again and again, and again –
repetition creates normality
repetition makes things disappear
we will repeat
and disappear.
NOGOODS is is a space for slippery ideas, repeating failures, collapsing structures, liquid narratives, and cross-disciplinary moods.
NOGOODS
Working at the intersection of performance, art, and architecture, NOGOODS aims to enable discursive practices, artistic production, non-linear research, and collaboration. With a specific focus on artistic discourse and collective thinking processes, NOGOODS curates and hosts programs consisting of exhibitions, workshops, lectures, screenings and artistic presentations. Through a lens of queer and feminist discourse NOGOODS combines research and artistic expression in a non-hierarchical way.
With an open collective structure the space continuosly moves, shapes, and transforms itself. NOGOODS publishes the cultural magazine bias: bodies in architecture and structures for critical, cross-disciplinary thoughts on architecture and performative practices that shape or are reshaped by the social body.
NOGOODS currently run by Danja Burchard and Francesca Scapinello and was founded in collaboration with Maike Statz.
Locations
2021 – 23 NOGOODS was founded at Kong Oscars gate 45, 5017 Bergen, Norway.
2024 – NOGOODS joined REMISE art space at Friedensallee 45, 22765 Hamburg, Germany.
NOGOODS and bias: bodies in architecture and structures have been supported by the Norwegian Arts Council, Bergen Kommune and Vestland Fylkeskommune.
Find our more about the collective
Francesca Scapinello
2022 – ongoing
Francesca Scapinello is captured by the complexity of the human engagement with (and creation of) material, fictional and conceptual realities. They are currently exploring the possibilities of bridging theory and practice inheriting intersectional transfeminism as the epistemic framework to, as Donna Haraway puts it, “stay with the trouble”. Through the curiosity towards feminist philosophy and ordinary language philosophy, developed by studying Philosophy at University of Turin (BA, 2018-2021) and deepened at University of Bergen (MA, 2021-), their conceptual projects revolve around the integration of the unexamined strands of the ordinary in social critique and standpoint theory, believing that such combination can result in a fruitful expansion of epistemic rhizomes and political vocabulary, especially when carried out in contexts of activism. By taking part as a performer in Anagoor’s theatre production “Socrate il sopravvissuto. Come le foglie” (2016-2020) Francesca had the chance to experiment interdisciplinarity on a methodological method, which is still a strategy that she endorses and wants to keep practicing for evolving.
Maike Statz
From 2021 – 2023
Maike Statz an artist and interior architect educated in The Netherlands and Australia, now living in Bergen, Norway. Through her work Maike is engaged in the influence of architecture on individuals and society, focusing on the relationship between gender, sexuality and space. Working with writing, performance and installation she makes use of architectural tools and methodologies, questioning how history is embedded in our various architectures and what power dynamics are at play. Focusing on specific interior elements, such as furniture and textiles, Maike reflects on their philosophical and practical meanings as well as processes of production. Maike holds a BDes in Interior and Spatial Design and a BA in International Studies from University of Technology in Sydney AUS. She completed a MA in Interior Architecture with Studio for Immediate Spaces at Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam NL. Maike worked for two years (2016–17, 2019–20) as an interior architect at Harry Seidler and Associates in Sydney AUS. While studying at Sandberg Instituut (2017-2019) she began developing an artistic practice.
bias: bodies in architectures and structures
NOGOODS and bias began from a shared curiosity in the relationship between architecture, performance and the social body. Architecture and performance are seemingly opposed by nature. While the former is perceived as static and the latter as moving, we see them as being in constant exchange and negotiation, fluidly co-forming the social body.
Deeply rooted within a queer and feminist theoretical framework, bias plays with a performative presentation of spatial, poetic and artistic research. Instead of following linear storytelling, we assemble a playful composition that confuses, conspires and demands. In the issues, you will find wide-ranging contributions across the fields of performance, architecture, philosophy, music, literature, art, care work, facilitation, and activism.
bias: bodies in architecture and structures as published two issues.
Issue 1: EMPAHTY was published in 2023
Issue 2: PLEASURE was published in 2024
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PLEASURE
PLEASURE: Programme, Discursive Event Series and Publication curated by NOGOODS
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EMPATHY
EMPATHY: Programme, discursive Event Series, Publication, curated by NOGOODS
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Politics of Somatic Architecture
Politics of Somatic Architecture Performative research project by Danja Burchard
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The Supplementary Film Club
The Supplementary Schoon Film Club by Amber Ablett
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RADICAL UTOPIAN WORKSPACE featuring Liquid Creatures
RADICAL UTOPIAN WORKSPACE featuring Liquid Creatures by Walk of Shame
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All The Pipes Go; pSht shWüSH glk!
All The Pipes Go; pSht shWüSH glk! A duo-exhibition by FRiDA ViKSTRöM and ViBE KiLDE.
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PELASURE with Galleri OVE
PELASURE in two-parts Curated by Galleri OVE
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“to stumble on a threshold”
An exhibition with Jack o Flynn and Johan Severin curated by Ruby Eleni
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Sickly Sweet (smile sweetly)
Performative Sound Installation by Naomi Credé
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Clean
a Performance by Rubber Glove Dove Collective.