Music for Plutocracy - S12 Gallery

 

MUSIC FOR PLUTOCRACY 

S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway

With a sound environment by JG Thirlwell

January 16 - March 28, 2021

Music for Plutocracy presents Senstad's 5th spatial neon sculpture, color and sound environment with sound composed by JG Thirlwell. This time in the city of Bergen, Norway contextualizing contemporary critical issues during our historic times; social and civil rights, capitalism and inequality, ethics and value systems in the contemporary political, technological and spiritual realms. Music for Plutocracy is part of Senstad's long term research project entitled Capitalism in the Public Realm, that started with Gold Guides Me, a monumental text work commissioned by the Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale in Belgium, 2015, How We Live Together, Yi Gallery, NY, 2020 and 4 short films created during the pandemic in 2020-21 collaboration with acclaimed actor Bill Sage and audio management by JG Thirlwell screened in context with Senstad's solo exhibition How We Live Together and as part of the exhibition Arts New Natures on Streamingmuseum.org. A presentation of Senstad's short film UTOPIE/UTOPIA is also included in the book CENTERPOINT NOW - Are We There Yet? published by WCPUN (World Council for Peoples of the United Nations) on the occasion of the UN's 75th Anniversary.

Now you can see, my son, how ludicrous and brief are all the goods in Fortune’s ken,

which humankind contend for: you see from this how all the gold there is beneath the moon, or that there ever was, could not relieve one of these weary souls.

 

Inferno, Canto VII, 4^th Circle: Plutus

Dante  Alighieri, (1263 – 1321)

 

 

 

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. 

 

Aristophanes, Plutus (388 B.C.)

With generous support from Fond for Lys og Bilde/Norsk Kulturråd , BKV/NBK and Foundation Center for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.