Artist statement

Sometimes

I explore the body as a depository of knowledge, emotions, memory by investigating its relationship to the gender based narratives that dominate it. Through physical durational performances, l

then

aim to generate speculative visceral experiences that transform the perception of the body and identity.

or

I explore the body within the realm of subjectivity and objectivity, by reflecting its existence as medium of communication and interaction, as gender, as construction and sex, as coalescence of mind.

Some

Inspiration comes from speculative philosophy, architecture, gender theory, C. G. Jung’s technologies of the subconscious, mythologies, new materialism, counterculture.

And

other things I have not encountered yet.

I want to

reframe intimate cultural and gender based fictions into an interrogation between body, space and time through des-identification strategies that modify and question the existence of body and spatial performance.

Also

Thinking is spatial. Space is thought. Performance is an act of daydreaming. Daydreaming is a performative act.

Important,

this statement is a fluid, amorphous and ephemeral proclamation of wavering and unruly thought processes in constant movement announced in an already passed past.

Click the star and undergo.

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.

Its is a space for slippery ideas, repeating failures, collapsing structures, liquid narratives, and cross-disciplinary moods. Working at the intersection of performance, art, and architecture, NOGOODS aims to enable discursive practices, artistic production, non-linear research, and collaboration. 

NOGOODS

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. With an open collective structure the space continuosly moves, shapes, and transforms itself. 
NOGOODS publishes the cultural magazine bias: bodies in architecture and structures. bias is an artist-run magazine for critical, cross-disciplinary thoughts on architecture and performative practices that shape or are reshaped by the social body. bias invites wide-ranging contributions across the disciplines of architecture, art, performance and more. Through a lens of queer and feminist discourse bias combines research and artistic expression in a non-hierarchical way.

Founded in 2021 the space was located at Kong Oscars gate 45, 5017 Bergen, Norway. Since Juli 2024 its practice continues in the framework of REMISE art space at Friedensallee 45, 22765 Hamburg, Germany. 

NOGOODS is run by Danja Burchard and Francesca Scapinello and was founded in collaboration with Maike Statz. The magazine is edited by NOGOODS and designed by Vera Gomes and Thanee Rene in Bergen, Norway.

Frontaler Blick auf NOGOODS in Bergen
bias Issue 1: EMPATHY

bias: bodies in architectures and structures

NOGOODS and bias began from our 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 want to 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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collective

NOGOODS operates with a fluid collective structure. Its core members change depending on availability, location and focus. NOGOODS is run by Danja Burchard, Epona Hamdan and Francesca Scapinello, and was founded in collaboration with Maike Statz.

Danja Burchard
2021 – ongoing

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.

Danja Burchard, Francesca Scapinello, Maike Statz

NOGOODS and bias: bodies in architecture and structures have been supported by the Norwegian Arts Council, Bergen Kommune and Vestland Fylkeskommune.