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GOLDIN + SENNEBY

Biography

Sarah Pierce, Lost Illusions / Illusions perdues, Balzac, l'art contemporain, performance

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

Sarah Pierce, Lost Illusions / Illusions perdues, Balzac, l'art contemporain, performance

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 (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).

Artist s website

www.goldinsenneby.com

DOCUMENTATION

Essay

Hydra, the Chicken and the Egg

By Hinrich Sachs

Essay

True Lies, Tired Hedonists

By Ginny Kollak

Essay

Nameless Acting

By Kim Einarsson

Essai

Enclosure & Enthusiasm

Par Goldin & Senneby

Publication

headless commercial thriller
By Alexander Provan

Video

Conference

By Dr Angus Cameron, Spatial Organization Lecturer, University of Leicester

Headless, The Power Plant

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