Headless
Kadist Art Foundation celebrates the publication of Headless , a crime novel by the elusive author K. D. on offshore finance and human sacrifice. Headless is a delirious romp through the world of offshore finance, conducted by a British ghostwriter who seems to have uncovered a sacrifice-obsessed, Bataille-inspired secret society of global economics elites who will do anything to maintain their power. The ghostwriter, John Barlow, is hired by the Swedish conceptualist artist duo Goldin + Senneby to investigate Headless, an offshore firm registered in the Bahamas. Barlow happily agrees to write up his investigation as a mystery novel, to be published under the name K. D. But soon Barlow is implicated in the decapitation of a police officer in Nassau, and his mover becomes a matter of life and death. The more he struggles to grasp the plot, the further he slips into the dark world of covert capitalism. Goldin + Senneby , artists in residence in Kadist in 2010, invite different participants as the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster or the writer Emilie Notéris and other guests to read from Headless and discuss the mystery genre, the difficulties of ghostwriting, the free rein of capital, the concept of xenospace and the pleasures of fiction that insistently impinges on reality.