Anne Katrine Senstad: September 2020

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

THE SENSORY CHAMBER - PATIOO MONOROOM / SPAIN

The Sensory Chamber

Anne Katrine Senstad with sound by JG Thirlwell

Patioo Monoroom

Sotogrande, Spain

September 17 - December 17, 2020

Almost out of the sky, half of the moon anchors between two mountains.Whirling, wandering night, the digger of eyes.Let us see how many sparkling stars disperse a watery body.

Almost Out of the Sky, Poem 11

Pablo Neruda, 1924

The Sensory Chamber presents a multi sensory environment where we are invited into an intimate dialogue between two central art works, The Sensory Chamber, Version III, 2020 and Babel no 08, 2020. The Sensory Chamber explores the immensity of space by invoking the internal geography of the viewer’s physical self through the use of transmitted color in hues of blues and whites enveloped in a radiant soundscape resonating the experience of light particles, electricity and spatial vastness created for the installation by acclaimed New York based composer JG Thirlwell.

Press Release HERE

Visit PATIOO Monoroom website HERE

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

ART'S NEW NATURES: Streaming Museum / DIGITAL DYNAMICS

ART'S NEW NATURES

August 27 - September 30, 2020

STREAMING MUSEUM

Anne Katrine Senstad / Jana Winderen / Æsa Bjork + Tinna Thorsteinsdottir / Anders Eiebakke / Lundahl + Seitl

Artist video interviews HERE

Short film and curatorial text:

UTOPIE/UTOPIA online exhibition screening HERE

Art’s New Natures is an online exhibition of art by internationally recognized Nordic artists that, through different media for online access and presentation, address current challenges for art’s place, meaning, and role in a world of rapid inter-existential changes.

Interview videos

The artists explain their creative process in interview videos, and how technological communication platforms bring opportunities to reach a broad international audience that physical art spaces do not. But this also requires them to consider how the nature of their art can be “democratic” in relating across cultures and reflecting the complex state of the world.

About

Art’s New Natures highlights how art responds to recently changing modes of human existence with social distancing and shifting realities of commonplaces and public culture. In climates of uncertainty, lockdown, assembly bans, the exposing of social inequities, and physical distancing, art evolves with lesser ties to the ‘art object’ and with a greater emphasis to the experience of art under the conditions of distance. Especially through digital expressions, we see how art explores new modes of proximity through storytelling and takes advantage of connective capacities of global and digital infrastructures for affecting and upholding human inter-relationships and social imaginaries. Art reworks experiences of nearness and distance, what it means to be closely connected or far apart. The artworks in this exhibition emerge in response to contemporary modes of interconnected existence, adaption, difference, and meaning making through hybrid spheres of shared concern and resistance.

Streaming Museum

The exhibition is presented at StreamingMuseum.org, which since its launch in 2008 has presented programs of art and world affairs in public spaces and venues around the world, and on its online platform. “In the current world crises where the internet is essential for education, business, cultural and personal communication, it's helping sustain artists’ livelihoods and more artists are recognizing new possibilities of visibility for their art,” said Nina Colosi, Streaming Museum founder and co-curator of the Art’s New Natures exhibition with Tanya Ravn Ag.

Publication

Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art

The program evolves on the basis of the publication Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2019) edited by Tanya Ravn Ag. From a globally connected Nordic perspective, the book examines how the digital and contemporary art co-evolve because digital technology and culture change the life worlds, imaginations, and tools of artists, the conditions for art’s production and distribution, and artists’ sense of agency and capacity to affect the world and tackle current urgencies. The program is the last chapter in the dissemination series Digital Dynamics: New Ways of Art on how contemporary art is changing with the digital through new environments, new modes of making, new kinds of representations, and new natures in art.

Digital Dynamics: Art’s New Natures is presented by Streaming Museum and curated by Nina Colosi and Tanya Ravn Ag. It is supported by Nordic Culture Fund and the Nordic Council of Ministers.