Seeing As Believing: Phosphene Visions - Exhibition Dec 5th - Jan 24th 2010

Exhibition: Phosphene Visions - Dec 5 2009 - Jan 24th 2010

Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa

Video installation; Light Writes Always in Plural, Light Displacement - Section 2, 2009

Single Channel Video, 8,20 min

Edited and Sound Design by Manuel Sander

Below: stills from video installation

Eva Peron Museum exhibition - The Reason for My Life

Anne Katrine Senstad - LA RAZÓN DE MI VIDA

NOVEMBER 25 – 29^TH 2009

A video installation by Anne Katrine Senstad at the Eva Peron Museum

Curated by Andrew Utt in conjunction with Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires Festival/VIBA Festival

OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26^th, 7 - 9 PM

Eva Peron Museum/Museo Evita

Lafinur 2988 (1425), Buenos Aires, Argentina

http://museoevita.org

The exhibition is made possible with the generous support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – La Razón de Mi Vida/The Reason for My Life is an installation of work by Anne Katrine Senstad, a Norwegian artist, on display at the Evita Museum from November 25-29 2009. The installation, a projection of “La Razón de Mi Vida” in multiple languages, carries the legacy of Eva Peron’s mission and reminds us of conviction in one’s own beliefs, one’s mission.

The site-specific installation, an experience of light and words projected onto the historic Museo Evita building, is a further development of her previous Neon Sentence works exhibited at Zendai MOMA, Shanghai and Gallery Nine5 in New York. In this presentation, Senstad plays with the meaning of words, transforming them by breaking up letter combinations and creating new meanings through differing languages. Thus, Senstad plays with Wittgenstein’s ideas of perception and the mapping out of language. Language and words are transformed and given new weight in process.

The profundity of the sentence “The Reason For My Life”, combines the intensity and poetry of Eva Peron’s life with Wittgenstein’s essential idea of Language as Philosophy, captured in one sentence. Senstad adds the notion of language variables by including Chinese, English and Spanish, to add to the layers of symbols and direction of grids and patterns – thus exemplifying the universality of the meaning of words and language.

The work will be presented during Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires Festival, VIBA Festival. Senstad’s work at VIBA Festival includes her recent video work “Light Writes Always in Plural, Light Displacement – Section Two” 2008. It will be exhibited from November 22-29 at VIBA Festival (www.vibafestival.com) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first video art festival of Buenos Aires. “La Razón de Mi Vida/The Reason for My Life” will be publicized through VIBA Festival in conjunction with the Eva Peron Museum.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian artist who lives in New York and Oslo. She has exhibited widely internationally, including Elga Wimmer LLC, Bjorn Ressle Gallery, Gallery Nine5 and Gary Snyder Projects in New York, The Noorderlicht institution in Holland, The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, BOZAR Museum in Brussels, the Ministry of Culture in Monaco, Zendai Moma in Shanghai, KK Projects in New Orleans, Artfairs include PhotoMiami, DIVA Paris, Scope Miami amongst others.

Curator: Andrew Ütt : a at andrewutt.com

VIBA Festival: Marina Reyes Franco : marina at vibafestival.com

Fox News Channel 8 Louisiana Coverage and interview, The Sugarcane Labyrinth

The Sugarcane Labyrinth Opening Oct 24th 2009

The Sugarcane Labyrinth Opening Oct 24th 2009 - Theriot, Louisiana

A Site - Time - Situation Specific - Agricultural Land Art Project by Anne Katrine Senstad

With Generous support from The Royal Norwegian Consulate General Houston

Please see September 2009 on the blog for more extensive information on the project

ART ZONE TV Shanghai interview for Zendai MOMA exhibition

Interview on ART ZONE TV in Shanghai for the exhibition with ZENDAI MOMA; Light Words White Neon, 2008

The Norwegians, Volume Two - Women

DARKNESS DESCENDS: Norwegian Art Now Runs Through Oct. 9 in the Grossman Gallery
Exhibition explores darkness inspired by mythology and nature
EASTON, Pa.(www.lafayette.edu), September 2, 2009 — DARKNESS DESCENDS: Norwegian Art Now, running through Oct. 9 in the Grossman Gallery, delves into the uniquely Norwegian style of neo-romanticism in contemporary art. The exhibition brings together a multidisciplinary group of artists to explore the fascination with darkness inspired by mythology and a close relationship to nature.

The exhibition includes drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, video, and sound pieces by Thora Dolven Balke, Halvor Bodin, Lars Elling, Anki King, Sol Kjøk, Ingvild Langgård, Are Mokkelbost, Rune Olsen, Anne Katrine Senstad, Elise Storsveen, Kjersti Vetterstad, Marius Watz, Liz Wendelbo, Jana Winderen, Monica Winther, and Munan Øvrelid.

From curator Christina Vassallo's statement: These photographs are the continuation of Senstad's series of male Norwegian portraits; in both series, Senstad channels the public perception of Norwegian culture and identity as they are formed through fact and fiction.

A quote from Thure Erik Lund's essay "On the Hell of Being Norwegian," which was included in Senstad's first book, is the best way to end this description of DARKNESS DESCENDS, although it further mystifies an understanding of Norwegian art: So, who are we really, we who claim to be real Norwegians? As a consequence of our nature, we extremely rare really genuine Norwegians are, strangely enough, not interested in defining ourselves, as either one or the other type of Norwegian.

The Real Estate Representation Project

The L9 Footprint - May 1 - Oct 1 2009

A Land Art Project by Anne Katrine Senstad in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA

Rental site/lot in L9: Street Adr: 2138 Delonde Street

Time line:

1. Rental of a lot in the Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans or $ 1 for 6 months from the City of New Orleans. Laying out the Pink Pattern, which means the outline of the previous house - a footprint of the former house that disappeared after Hurricane Katrina and inhabitants displaced. Footprint created May 10th and 11^th . Documentation conducted for later usage.
2. Oct 2009 – documentation and removal of the Pink Pattern footprint. Lease with The City of New Orleans ends.