Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), 67.
“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” →.
The direct translation of the original Swedish title is “What Happened Next?”
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.
