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The Goodstock
Welcome to The Goodstock, a fictional wellness retreat created to challenge the legacies of eugenics and their ongoing influence on contemporary society.
A multidisciplinary installation, The Goodstock brings together mock-documentary film, moving image, and spatial design to question inherited narratives and consider what a more equitable and compassionate future could look like. The work imagines a world that values the neurodivergent mind, acting as a retreat from the relentless individualism of capitalist structures.
Visitors are invited to slow down and soften their pace, presenting an invitation to ‘unmask’ and instead make space for self-expression and authenticity to flourish.
The title references the eugenicist belief that only those deemed of ‘good stock’ - with so-called desirable traits such as mental ‘soundness’, whiteness, wealth, heterosexuality, and able-bodiedness - should reproduce. The installation acts as a counterpoint to the discrimination fuelled by such beliefs, and the echoes that reverberate today through the resurgence of far-right narratives and divisive social policies. Celebrating the diversity of human experience, The Goodstock reclaims and subverts eugenicist language to imagine a world rooted in care, community, and inclusion.
About the artist
Ray Young is an award-winning transdisciplinary performance artist, writer, educator and coach. Creating unique, genre-defying work through collaboration and resistance to traditional form, Ray's practice exists at the boundaries of live art, activism and immersive experience.