EXCERPT FROM NOVEL

Goldin+Senneby has collaborated with writer Katie Kitamura to explore experiences of autoimmunity and its metaphors of a ‘body at war with itself’. The artists’ research, experiments and performances have inspired Kitamura’s fiction, which in turn has influenced the duo’s artistic output. Flare-Up is the working title of the as yet unfinished novel Kitamura is writing in collaboration with the artists. The novel comprises two discrete parts set in parallel versions of the same world. One part revolves around a mysterious pine tree with a supercharged immune system, while the other tells of a stranger whose sense of self—and biological coherence—comes into question as he seeks a novel treatment for his illness. The first two chapters from each part are published for this exhibition. Commissioned and edited by Triple Canopy.