Insurgency of Life
by Artbook
Insurgency of Life draws on bodily experiences from the seventeen years that Goldin+Senneby have worked together.
These experiences concern living with an autoimmune condition multiple sclerosis or MS and what that has meant for their joint subjectivity. The book contains a transcript of an artist talk given by the duo with associated X-rays showing the corpse of a nymph cicada, fully overtaken by the fungus isaria sinclairii. For centuries this parasitic fungus has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as an eternal youth nostrum, and more recently as the active substance in the first pill to treat MS.
Insurgency of Life
Goldin+Senneby, 2021
155 x 140 mm, 39 pages text + 40 pages X-ray on transparent film
X-ray images: Hans Hertz Laboratory
Graphic design: Johan Hjerpe
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered by the artists