Simon Goldin + Jakob Senneby: Flack Attack
December 2005
Simon Goldin + Jakob Senneby: Flack Attack
With their Gate Page, Goldin+Senneby (founded 2004, Stockholm, Sweden) explored the participatory production of a magazine in The Port, a community-driven space they initiated inside the online 3D world Second Life. The space was accessible to Second Life inhabitants, as well as potentially all internet users, who were invited to contribute articles, images, and comments to the magazine on a Wiki-like platform within The Port. Over the course of December 2005, editorial meetings were held every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday and documented with minutes and images published through the Gate Page. What resulted was a print-on-demand magazine titled Flack Attack (on Autonomy), which examined networked public spheres and the paradoxes of autonomy within commodified digital environments. As both a spatial and networked experiment, Flack Attack transformed magazine production into a process-driven, participatory platform that considered authorship, community, and creative autonomy in the age of social software.
theport.tv
objectsofvirtualdesire.com
flackattack.org
Many sites linked throughout this project are no longer online, but are available in the Internet Archive. Further description of the project can be found on goldinsenneby.com.
Founded in 2004, Goldin+Senneby—Stockholm-based artists Simon Goldin (b. 1971; Umeå, Sweden) and Jakob Senneby (b. 1981; Stockholm, Sweden)—have explored the structural correspondences between conceptual art and finance capital. Their works include the ghostwritten detective novel Headless (2007–15), about an offshore company in the Bahamas; Eternal Employment (2022), a proposal for a job at a train station; and Flare-Up / Flare-Up (2025), an exploration of the bodily experiences of an autoimmune disease. They have had solo exhibitions at Tensta konsthall, Stockholm; Artspace Aoteaora, Auckland; Kadist, Paris; the Power Plant, Toronto; NOME, Berlin; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their work has been included in the Eleventh Gwangju Biennale (2016), Thirteenth Istanbul Biennial (2013), Manifesta 9 (2012); and the Twenty-Eighth São Paulo Biennial (2008). They are represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gate Pages
Every month from March 2001 to February 2006, the Whitney invited an artist or collective to present their work in the form of a “Gate Page” on artport. Each page was meant to function as a portal to the artist’s own sites and projects. The Gate Pages comprise a range of artistic approaches to the format—while some of them are designed as entry points to the respective artist’s website or promote a recently launched work, others take the form of a more complex stand-alone project.
Wherever necessary and possible, these works are made functional through emulation and reconstructions from the Internet Archive. Not all of them have been restored to their original state and their conservation is ongoing. You can also view the original Gate Pages archive to see how they were presented at the time of their creation.
artport
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