Issue #108 What Is Wrong with My Nose: From Gogol and Freud to Goldin+Senneby (via Haraway)

What Is Wrong with My Nose: From Gogol and Freud to Goldin+Senneby (via Haraway)

Maria Lind

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Goldin+Senneby, Insurgency of Life at e-flux, New York, 2019. Installation view. Courtesy: the artists. Photo: Gustavo Murillo Fernández-Valdés.

Issue #108
April 2020










Notes
1

Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), 67.

2

“This 150 million figure is predicted to increase exponentially and it is estimated that by 2025 more than 50% of all Europeans will suffer from at least one type of allergy, with no age, social or geographical distinction” .

3

The direct translation of the original Swedish title is “What Happened Next?”

4

Such a long-haul trajectory is echoed in their series of retrospectives that have been going on for four years. Since the birth of retrospective exhibitions in the early nineteenth century, a retrospective typically entails temporarily assembling as many works as possible by one single artist under one roof during a few months—the purpose being to make artistic developments manifest, and offer the chance to compare them to other artists’ developments. As is obvious, Goldin+Senneby have chosen other routes. The first retrospective in their trilogy, “Standard Length of a Miracle,” encompassed a set of existing works displayed in five different locations across Stockholm, most of them non-art related. At the same time, a handful of brand new works were presented at Tensta Konsthall and Cirkus Cirkör, all feeding on a “protocol,” a short story commissioned for the occasion from the author Jonas Hassen Khemiri. At the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, the second retrospective consisted of bootleg copies of old works.