Single-channel object video, 5'10'', 2025
Installation for solo exhibition Feralocene, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Norway, 2025
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Alt Går Bra produced this installation for their solo exhibition Feralocene at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter - NNKS, Svolvær, Norway, April 5th - May 25th, 2025
. The installation and the video/sound work have only been shown at this venue.
The single-channel video is an object video. In 2023, we envisioned a dispositif to produce videos performatively without post-production nor editing. These Object Videos result from a combination of analog, performative, and digital procedures, exploring questions of technology.
The sound for the video is an anachronistic mix of technologies, including sounds generated using musique concrète methods, field recordings, found sounds, and artificial intelligence.
The video demo begins with photographs of the entire exhibition and the three-channel sound piece, playing form the ceiling, since the entire exhibition was conceived as a single installation--including the dedicated video room, where the single-channel video was projected.
This installation can be adapted to suit different spaces and contexts.
Focusing on the feral, our Feralocene project researches new modes of attention, emerging amidst planetary crises and the digitalization of life. As anthropologist Anna Tsing puts it, “The term “feral” forces attention to what was once hidden in the gap between “wild” and “domestic.”... Without the concept of the feral, it is too easy to fall into a dichotomy that only includes the wild and the domestic.”
Our interest in this material departs from our own experiences with the feral in our daily interactions with feral pigeons in urban contexts and with “wild” boars in the forest. Perceived as plagues in most environments, both species have been increasingly demonized, namely due to their interactions with humans and their infrastructures.
Our theoretical framework for this project brings together recent works by Anna Tsing (Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene) and art historian Claire Bishop (Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today).
Feralocene aims to deepen our understanding of fragmented forms of attention to both confront environmental issues and make art relevant to the contemporary moment. We seek to engage scholars and the public to generate new insights into contemporary art’s evolving discourse, with the ambition of contributing to the ongoing decolonization of both art and attention.
Alt Går Bra was founded by Agnes Nedregård and Branko Boero Imwinkelried in 2015. Run by the duo, Alt Går Bra is conceived as an art collective with an infrastructural practice--exploring ways of organizing and working with others while transgressing borders between artist-run and institutional, art production and dissemination, artistic practice and art theory.
With roots in the opposite poles of the earth, South America and Scandinavia, Alt Går Bra interweaves situated latitudes into long-term and process-based projects.
Alt Går Bra has presented its work at over 200 spaces, ranging from small venues and community spaces to large institutions, including the National Museum of Norway Nasjonalmuseet, KODE Bergen Art Museum, Bergen Kunsthall, the University of Westminster, Palais de Tokyo, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Alt Går Bra’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the National Museum of Norway Nasjonalmuseet, MAC VAL Contemporary Art Museum, KODE Bergen Art Museum, Sogn og Fjordane Kunst Museum, KORO Public Art Norway, Trondheim Kommune, Tate Archives and Library, and John Flaxman Library School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Alt Går Bra has received support from funding bodies including the Norwegian Arts Council Kulturråd, KORO Public Art Norway, OCA Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Vestland County, Bergen City Council, Fritt Ord, Billedkunstnernes Hjelpefond, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Barents Secretariat, Arts Council England, UK National Heritage Fund, and Pro Helvetia.
A recent book surveys the 10-year practice of the collective: Alt Går Bra / Tout Va Bien, An Adage for Contemporary Art (Silvana Editoriale, 2026) edited by Nicolas Surlapierre, Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre, and Alessandra Ballotti, with a preface by Jacques Rancière.
Agnes and Branko live and work between Paris and Bergen (Norway). They do not have a solo practice and all their works are produced under the Alt Går Bra collective. Therefore, they share a unique CV and bio.
For further information, visit Alt Går Bra's website www.altgarbra.org