Book launch: Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey
Book launch: Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey – Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas
12 February, 18–20 / Oslo Kunstforening
The event will be held in English / Free admission
PROGRAM
– Performative reading by Eline Benjaminsen and Dayna Casey
– Short presentation on “eco surrealism” by economist Marie Storli
– “Offshore infusion on the rocks” will be served
– Special launch price on the book
Oslo Kunstforening is pleased to present the book launch of of Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas by Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey. The book explores the language and metaphors used in the realm of finance – a universe populated by animals, myths, and strange ecologies. Through terms drawn from financial slang, the book reveals how economy, nature, and fiction are intertwined, and how this language shapes the ways we understand and engage with the world.
The book is connected to Eline Benjaminsen’s project The Flora of Finance, which was shown at Oslo Kunstforening as part of the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB Grant Exhibition 2024. For this project, Benjaminsen received the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB Grant for 2024 and was also awarded a studio residency at Ekely in Oslo.
Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas is an assemblage of visual essays, photography, and texts, with contributions by Amy Bride, Sami Hammana, Marie Storli, and Alexis Wright. The book is published by Spector Books and Page Not Found, with support from CNA Luxembourg, Stimuleringsfonds (NL), Stroom Den Haag, Kulturrådet, and Jan van Eyck Academie.
Eline Benjaminsen (b. 1992, NO) works with photography, video, and publications, and investigates the often invisible and complex spaces where market fundamentalism and ecological crisis meet. A camera-based “follow-the-money” approach fuses techniques associated with documentary photography and experimental representation. Collaboration with researchers, activists, and institutions is central to her practice, alongside an interest in how economic systems shape landscapes and conditions of life.
Dayna Casey (b. 1988, Boorloo AU/NL) is an artistic researcher, writer, and graphic designer. Working essayistically and across disciplines, she weaves together theoretical research, archival material, text, and visual formats in publications, installations, and performative readings. Her practice explores ecology and finance, bodily and earthly extraction, and questions of ownership and reproduction.
Marie Storli (b. 1992, NO) is a social economist specialising in sustainability thinking, alternative economic models, and heterodox economics. Her work focuses on degrowth, the transition to a post-growth economy, and the foundations of the welfare state. She is the former head of Rethinking Economics Norway and currently works as an economist for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). Storli is also an active writer and public commentator.