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Matthew Benington, Roter Su, Katherine Hammond

사라지면 끝이다 When It’s Gone It’s Gone | 2024 | 9’58”
Courtesy Matthew Benington, Roter Su, Katherine Hammond

Synopsis
The flood risk map published by Climate Central predicts that large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Fens in eastern England could fall below annual flood levels by 2050. When It’s Gone It’s Gone forms part of a wider socially engaged project exploring the experiences of communities living with severe coastal erosion. Over the past two years, Roter Su, Matthew Benington, and Katherine Hammond have documented rapidly changing landscapes along the east coast of England. Working with local community groups, the project examines the intersection of environmental change, lived experience, and visual representation. Central to the work is the conviction that the voices of those most directly affected by coastal transformation must be heard, amplified, and shared with wider audiences in order to deepen public understanding and inform future policy discussions around coastal protection. The project has been supported by the East Anglia Arts Fund and Norwich University of the Arts. The film When It’s Gone It’s Gone was presented at the Forces of Nature symposium at the Henry Moore Institute and continues as part of the Living in Changing Landscapes (LICL) research initiative at Norwich University of the Arts.


About the artist
Matthew Benington is an artist working across printmaking and photography whose practice explores collective memory, landscape, and histories of land ownership. His projects include Hide: The Apocryphal Archive, an immersive folly lined with etchings of displaced members of his own family, and Hide, a sculptural archive situated within the permanent collection of Tremenheere Sculpture Garden. The reuse of former industrial spaces has also shaped his curatorial work, including Unstable Monuments at ACE, Truro (2016) and Unstable Monuments Bristol (2022). Benington is one half of Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, an Arts Council England–supported performance collaboration with artist Tom Pope examining the historical context of the cyanotype process. Roter Su’s practice-based research explores the cultural identity of first-generation Taiwanese immigrants in the United Kingdom, examining how individuals negotiate belonging through the tension between cultural inheritance and adaptation. Together, Benington and Su collaborate on When It’s Gone It’s Gone, a project documenting climate-driven transformations along the Norfolk coastline and the lived experiences of those most directly affected. Both lecture in Fine Art and Film at Norwich University of the Arts.