Headless symbol (Johan Hjerpe)
On Wednesday 15 May Angus Cameron presented Headless, a large scale performance art project led by Swedish collaborative duo Goldin+Senneby. Cameron shares his thoughts on the themes of Headless in relation to the work of Bernadette Corporation.
I spent a very enjoyable evening at the ICA on Wednesday, discussing the relative merits of Goldin+Senneby’s Headless and Bernadette Corporation‘s Reena Spaulings. This was in the context of the ICA’s retrospective Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Although centered on the multi-authored artists novels the artists have produced, my particular interest concerned the theme of the fragmented self that runs through both and, indeed, through the groups’ other work too. My title, In Pieces (Prezi for the event available here) was borrowed from this passage in Reena Spaulings (p.42):
