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. 

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

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.