The Demise of Everything Good (Lydgalleriet)

2024

Three channel 4K-video installation (16 min), 5-channel audio, metal structure (4 x 3 x 2,5m), 2x towels (9m and 1,8m), dumbbells, skateboard, HD video installation with headphones (3:50 min), t-shirts and long sleeve t-shirts

Documentation photos: Sasha Azanova

The first iteration of The Demise of Everything Good premiered as part of the group show The Matrix of Power at Nitja senter for samtidskunst, Lillestrøm, in February 2024. 

For this solo exhibition at Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Kaeto Sweeney and I expanded the project by adding new works: a 9-meter towel with the sentence When did it become so problematic not to want to hurt? printed on it; dumbbells; the skateboard used by Beccy on the shooting of the film in 2023; the open call video that Beccy submitted when she applied for the role in the film; and t-shirts/long sleeve t-shirts for sale during the exhibition period.

The t-shirts and long sleeve t-shirts are part of Kaeto and mine’s alternative donation list of foreign organisations and causes. In Norway, as a taxpayer or business owner, you can claim deductions for donations to certain foreign voluntary organisations and religious and belief-based communities working with care and health, child and youth-oriented work in arts, culture and sports, protection of human rights, disaster relief, animal protection – all which have been approved in advance by the Norwegian Tax Administration. In their list, 5 out of the 9 selected organisations are directly linked to Christian missions (source Skatteetaten, § 6-50 of the Tax Act).

This is our alternative list:

1 - AlQaws – queer organisation in Palestine.

2 - Callen-Lorde – New York based LGBTQ+ healthcare organisation, providing affordable/free healthcare.

3 - Mermaids UK – supports trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children, young people and their families.

4 - FESK – skateboarding organisation from Ceará (Nayara ’s home state in Brazil).

5 - Sponsored sessions for Beccy’s skateboarding school for FLINTA* people.

6 - Islamic Relief Worldwide – Sudan Emergency Appeal.

7 - Malala Fund – fund that helps girls around the world go to school.

8 - Campaign from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) to support the victims of the floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

9 - MADRE – international feminist organisation support system for grassroots organisations working with women and girls in over 40 countries.

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List of works:

The Demise of Everything Good
3 channel 4K-video installation, 5-channel audio
16:00

When did it become so problematic not to want to hurt?
Towels, 9m

Beccy
HD video installation with headphones
03:50

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE
T-shirts and Long sleeve T-shirts for sale – 300kr
100% of the proceeds were divided equally and went towards our alternative donation list of foreign organisations and causes


Curator: Julie Lillelien Porter

Gallery assistant and photographer/videographer: Sasha Azanova

Gallery assistant: Karina Sletten

Technicians: Tine Adler, Tobias Kvendseth and Moana LeMeur

The Demise of Everything Good is supported by Kulturdirektoratet, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Kunstsentrene i Norge, Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK) and Wrap.