Goldin+Senneby (with Stephen Bain, actor ; Anna Heymowska, set designer ; Johan Hjerpe, graphic designer ; Paul Leong, investment banker ; Jo Randerson, playwright ; Ybodon, computer scientist), M&A, 2013, Theatrical rehearsals and financial speculation, exhibition view (ArtspaceNZ, Auckland), photo credit: Sam Hartnett

Goldin+Senneby (with Stephen Bain, actor ; Anna Heymowska, set designer ; Johan Hjerpe, graphic designer ; Paul Leong, investment banker ; Jo Randerson, playwright ; Ybodon, computer scientist), M&A, 2013, Theatrical rehearsals and financial speculation, exhibition view (ArtspaceNZ, Auckland), photo credit: Sam Hartnett

Biography

 

Goldin+Senneby (since 2004) is a framework for collaboration set up by artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby; exploring juridical, financial and spatial constructs through notions of the performative and the virtual. Their collaboration started with The Port (2004-06); acting in an emerging public sphere constructed through digital code. In their more recent body of work, known as Headless (2007 -), they approach the sphere of offshore finance, and its production of virtual space through legal code. Looking at strategies of withdrawal and secrecy, they trace an offshore company on the Bahamas called Headless Ltd. A ghostwritten detective novel continuously narrates their investigations. Since 2010 their work has focused on The Nordenskiöld Model, an experiment in theatrical finance, in which they attempt to (re)enact the anarcho-alchemical scheme of 18th century alchemist August Nordenskiöld on the financial markets of today.

Goldin+Senneby's solo exhibitions include: M&A, Artspace NZ, Auckland (2013); I dispense, divide, assign, keep, hold, NAK, Aachen (2012); Standard Length of a Miracle, CAC, Vilnius (2011); The Decapitation of Money, Kadist, Paris (2010); Headless. From the public record, Index, Stockholm (2009); Goldin+Senneby: Headless, The Power Plant, Toronto (2008). Group exhibitions include: Art Turning Left, Tate Liverpool (2013); Mom, am I barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013); The Deep of the Modern, Manifesta 9, Genk (2012); The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2011); The Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); Uneven Geographies, Nottingham Contemporary (2010); In living contact, 28th Bienal de Sao Paulo (2008). Residencies include: Headlands, San Francisco (2012); SALT, Istanbul (2012); Kadist, Paris (2010); Gasworks, London (2008); IASPIS, Stockholm (2007).

Artists' Website

• www.goldinsenneby.com

 

Essays

• Hydra, the Chicken and the Egg

  By Hinrich Sachs

 

• True Lies, Tired Hedonists

  By Ginny Kollak

   

• Nameless Acting

  By Kim Einarsson

 

• Enclosure & Enthusiasm

  By Goldin & Senneby

   

Publication

• headless commercial thriller
  By Alexander Provan

Video

• Lecture

      by Dr Angus Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Spatial Organisation at University of Leicester

      Headless, The Power Plant