The building instructions for these Lego robots are found on patient forums on YouTube. They are DIY devices made to cheat the phone’s pedometer and thus get around requirements from insurance companies for shared health data and activity goals.
Exhibited:Insurgency of Life, e-flux, New York, 2019-2020https://www.e-flux.com/events/300920/goldin-senneby-insurgency-of-life/Pool of Life, CFHill, Stockholm, 2020https://www.cfhill.com/exhibition/goldin-senneby-pool-of-life
Insurgency of Life, Nome, Berlin, 2021https://nomegallery.com/exhibitions/insurgency-of-life/Sick Architecture, CIVA, Brussels, 2022https://civa.brussels/en/exhibitions-events/expo-sick-architectureSwedish Acquisitions: Matches, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2022.https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/svenska-forvarv-tandstickor
Flare-Up, Accelerator, Stockholm, 2025 https://acceleratorsu.art/en/utstallning/flare-up-goldinsenneby
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Part of Moderna museet collection: MOM/2021/234:2https://sis.modernamuseet.se/en/objects/107627/insurgency-of-life-lego-pedometer-cheating-machines
Photo: Gustavo Murillo Fernández-Valdés / e-flux.
Goldin+Senneby är en svensk konstnärsduo, bestående av Simon Goldin och Jakob Senneby.