Monday, August 17, 2020

ARTSY Viewing Room - How We Live Together


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Aug 16 - Sept 31, 2020


HOW WE LIVE TOGETHER / HWLT

Anne Katrine Senstad







Using public art and architecture as vehicles to explore ideas of power,wealth,market,competition and dependence,Senstad addresses the search for personal liberation and satisfaction in our hyper-capitalist world.








Yi Gallery is pleased to reopen the Project Room with an exhibition of new works by Anne Katrine Senstad. "How We Live Together" examines the value systems and ethics that define citizenry and our common history, as well as speculates on how future generations will work together to shape our common destiny. Senstad uses text, installation and color interactions to cast light on the resurgent tribalism of our times. 

The titular artwork, How We Live Together (2018), is a staple of the artist’s decades-long preoccupation with text displacement and the re-authoring of philosophical statements. The brushed gold, aluminium signage piece evokes public and private postmodern aesthetics of corporatism and the politics of financial power and wealth distribution. How We Live Together is the latest work from Senstad’s research project - Capitalism in the Public Realm - that she began in 2015 with a commissioned monumental sculpture, Gold Guides Me, for Triennale Brugge. Using public art and architecture as vehicles to explore ideas of power, wealth, market, competition and dependence, Senstad addresses the search for personal liberation and satisfaction in our hyper-capitalist world. Exchanging To with We in Roland Barthes’ text How To Live Together - from his 1977 lecture series on the notions of idiorrhythmic living through philosophy, literature, history and religion - the artist raises the question of how do we want to reshape our future, suggesting a philosophical and psychological shift in approach towards a potential integrated future. By proclaiming the communal We in How We Live Together, the artist suggests a shift from the politics of self to an all encompassing economy of we, where the narratives of time, nature and future generations are included.



















Babel
The seven triangular structures combine the usage of utilitarian materials, such as bolts, door hinges and plexiglas, hinting at the ready-made, commerce, modernist architecture and advent of communication. This selection of materials further reflects on the artist’s association with the radical Bauhaus philosophy of uniting the arts through playful modification of everyday objects and utilitarianism. Though geometric and angular, the structure alludes to what Senstad calls a “human” circle, not unlike the integrated architecture of tribal and indigenous societies. Colors interact among the semi-transparent acrylic panels, reflecting and refracting variations of light. The symbiotic color composition transitions liminal space into a solid definition. An interlaced topology of compartments merges into wholeness. In Circle of Babel (2020), seven precisely arranged, multichromatic Plexiglas triangles form a circle of unity. Referencing numerous ancient mythological texts, most notably the biblical version of Genesis, the artist’s abstract Tower of Babel symbolizes the dispersing element of togetherness, where the city and the tower represent a control of the citizens, ruled by confusion and chastisement. 

ART DAILY Exhibition Review HERE




THE YI GALLERY PANDEMIC EXHIBITION:

THE SOCIALLY DISTANCED EXHIBITION VISIT







Saturday, August 15, 2020

BORN AGAIN VIRGIN - Airmattress Gallery

 Air Mattress Gallery group exhibition Aug 8 - Sept 7, 2020

Born Again Virgin - A Midsummer Nights Dream. Curated by Mark Demuro and Ben Peterson.

Artist: Al Hansen, Alex Katz, Andy Warhol, Anne Katrine Senstad, Dietar Busse, Durhirwe Rushemeza, Dustin Spence, Jerry Torre, Justin Olerud, Kenny Schachter, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeoise, Marcel Duchamp, Mary-Ann Monforton, Maynard Monrow, Mike Ousterhout, Nan Goldin, Nancy Sadler, Peter Coffin, Raynes, Birkbeck, Roland Gebhardt, Sarah Charlesworth.




Borealis no 20, 2020 ( acrylic, screw and bolts) - view on Artsy here


Portal for Perpetuity II, 2020 - (Neon, semi transparent mirrors, transformer) - view on Artsy here























Below: Color Kinesthesia 6A4.2.2., 2012 ( view on Artsy Here

Scale: 50 x 60 inches

Photographic C Print from original color film Negative


Installation images above and belo : inserted into invented collectors homes or public collections as a commentary on media disinformation, art value manipulation and the state of the art as a market commodity the past 30 years.




UTOPIE / UTOPIA - How We Live Together

 


UTOPIE / UTOPIA


A READING PERFORMANCE BY BILL SAGE

RECORDING RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, JULY 31ST, 6PM EST - to Aug 15th, 2020

This event is organized by artist Anne Katrine Senstad, in conjunction with her solo exhibition How We Live Together at Yi Gallery, on view July 17 - August 15, 2020. The exhibition examines the value systems and ethics that define citizenry and our common history, as well as speculates on how future generations will work together to shape our common destiny. Senstad uses text, installation and color interactions to cast light on the resurgent tribalism of our times.

Visit the HOW WE LIVE TOGETHER vimeo video page here





Title: UTOPIE/UTOPIA
Length: 10.27 min.
Format: 1920x1080 SD
Sound: Stereo
Creator: Anne Katrine Senstad
Actor: Bill Sage
Sound: JG Thirlwell



In exploring the nuances of idiorrhythmic living formats, Senstad invites acclaimed actor Bill Sage to reinterpret Roland Barthes pedagogical methods and critical worldview from five decades ago in the context of our contemporary experience in a changing world. Produced during the 2020 pandemic, the performative reading in film format was achieved by remote collaborations between artist Anne Katrine Senstad, actor Bill Sage and composer/sound producer JG Thirlwell. By jointly reshaping and exploring new systems for expression and cultural production, the artists simultaneously respond to the current human experience of isolation, societal and political deconstruction through the absorption of Barthes structural novelistic lectures and internal dialogue on idiorrhythmic living, and ways of understanding community and individuality, spaces, and rhythms of life for our possible futures. 

In his chapter on a utopia of idiorrhythmic Living-Together, Barthes considers our “Sovereign Good” a form of tactful cohabitation and an inner state - the state of tolerance is considered a place of utopia. Sage creates a rich texture of spirit and authenticity, embodying the internal conversation and experience of the human enterprise transmitted through the character he created for the piece - a navigational journey through a meditative analysis as understanding our sense of place

The title of Senstad's exhibition, How We Live Together determines an action in how we want to shape our common future. Senstad reauthors Barthes 1977 university lectures titled How To Live Together, which present a passive set of contemplative possibilities organized after literary and fantasmatic methods - the academic observational criteria. In activating the title through an actor’s voice and delivery, Sage transmits the experience and embodiment of our inner dialogue and relation to the self. In the postmodern society that evolved after Barthes social philosophies, the disenfranchisement of societal and spiritual value has escalated to the critical crescendo we are now living with, globally manifested in illness of the human soul and body, isolation, displacement and quarantined living. Another French philosopher, Baurdillard spoke about a societal simulacra and the postmodern living mode that removed the individual from any form of natural self and common value system. With popular culture emplifying this loss of human spirit, Baurdillard examined how the film American Psycho is the epitome of the postmodern human. In the iconic business card scene, an assembly of wall street men including Bill Sage's character identify their sole value represented in a symbol of patriarchy, capitalism, spectacle and expendable identities. 

Text: Excerpt from book How To Live Together by Roland Barthes
Session of May 4, 1977 - Utopie/Utopia  
Page 130-132 














Bill Sage has appeared in over 40 films, stage and TV productions. Films include American Psycho, Boiler Room, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Insider and TV series include Law & Order, Boardwalk Empire and more. Sage is currently working with long time collaborator, indie film director Hal Hartley, on a new production entitled Where to Land, alongside Edie Falco and Parker Posey.