NEON GUIDES ME in Bookshops and Libraries

We are happy to announce that NEON GUIDES ME is available at  Walther König & Cahiers d’Art Bookshop at Palais de Tokyo in Paris,  Dashwood Books in New York and Tronsmo Bookshop in Oslo, Norway.

Tronsmo Bookshop was praised by both Allen Ginsberg and The Financial Times as one of the best bookshops in the world. Read the story in FT on the worlds most brilliant bookshops here.

NEON GUIDES ME presents an index of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad's light and space practice through the spatial light sculpture installation works ELEMENTS I-VI with sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV-VI) and CC Hennix (ELEMENTS III BLUE). The book includes texts by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell in conversation with media writer Patrick Rolandelli(US), composer, philosopher and mathematician C.C Hennix(SWE), author, artist and curator Sarah Walko (US), author and social-political anthropologist Marianne Solberg(NO), Art Historian Erik Meling, Professor of Architectural History and Theory Andres Kurg (EE), director Seinajoki Kunsthall Finland Sanna Karimaki-Nuutinen (FI), art historian, author and philosopher Dr Aura Seikkula (FI). Designed and published by Praun & Guermouche.

Contributing photography: Sarah Bauwens (BE), SHAO Yi (CHN), Samuli Kuusisto (FI), Anne Katrine Senstad

The publication and forthcoming presentations of Neon Guides Me and/or the artworks in the book have been made possible with support from Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Kunst og Ny Teknologi, Norske Billedkunstnere BKV, Fritt Ord, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Emily Harvey Foundation New York and Venice, Italy.

NEON GUIDES ME has been collected by or acquired by these libraries and institutions:

The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library, and Research Collections (ALRC)

The National Museum of Norway's Library collection

The National Library of Norway

The Musea Brugge Library serving 13 museums in Bruges, Belgium 

Nordnorsk Kunst Senter Library, Svolvær, Norway

Artica's Library in Longyearbyen, Svaldbard, Norway - the northernmost library in the world

Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

The New York Public Library's Photography, Art and Prints collection 

Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

The Haas Arts Library, Yale School of Art at Yale University, New Haven, CT

The Bobst Library, NYU, New York

Libraries at MIT, Cambridge, MA

School of Visual Art Library, New York

The Marquand Library, Princeton University, NJ

Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Sachsische Landesbibliotek Staats und Universitetsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany

Jamestown Art Center, Rhode Island, US

The Great Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Libraries at The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Jafet Library. The American University in Beirut, Lebanon

Galerie 8 + 4/Bernard Chauveau Editions, Paris

Atelier Carlos Cruz-Diez, Paris 

Rune Johansen Museum, Norway

Photo: The National Museum of Norway Library: New acquisitions wall.

We are proud NEON GUIDES ME is part of the private library of Atelier Cruz-Diez in Paris. The art work ELEMENTS I featured in the book was exhibited alongside Cruz-Diez's light and color work CHROMOSATURATION in the exhibition Through the Spectrum, 2018, including light and space artists James Turrell, Robert Irwin,Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leo Villarreal, Anne Katrine Senstad, Timo Nasseri, Nasser Al Salem and others.

Photo: Carlitos Cruz-Diez of Atelier Cruz-Diez. Photo by Anne Katrine Senstad

PALAIS DE TOKYO

Walther König & Cahiers d’Art, two key trademarks in the world of art, have created one of the largest art bookshops in Paris situated at Palais de Tokyo.

American Scandinavian Cultural Grant exhibition opening February 2, 2023

Announcement of the 2022 American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant and the Elfie von Kantzow Alvin Art Award - I am honored to be a recipient of the Norwegian Cultural Grant.

Exhibition opening and concert

7 pm, February 2nd, 2023

Curated by Anita Alvin Nilert

Anne Katrine Senstad and Tine Lundsfryd

Trygve Lie Gallery

317 East 52nd street,

New York, NY

Anne Katrine Senstad: Color Kinesthesia 4A52, 2012

For over 100 years, the American Scandinavian Society has been promoting and celebrating the cultural and intellectual ties between the people of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the US.

NEON GUIDES ME book launch Emily Harvey Foundation

 

Anne Katrine Senstad NEON GUIDES ME book launch  
 

Join The Emily Harvey Foundation for a panel discussion with Anne Katrine Senstad, JG Thirlwell, and Tom McGlynn celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME

 

Saturday, November 5th, 4 - 6 pm

 

The Emily Harvey Foundation

537 Broadway #2

New York, NY 10012

 

Free admission

Please join The Emily Harvey Foundation in celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME by Anne Katrine Senstad, with a panel discussion with Senstad, composer JG Thirlwell, and Editor at Large, Brooklyn Rail, Tom McGlynn, followed by a video talk with publisher Praun & Guermouche, and a neon installation on view. 

 

Neon is at the core of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s wide ranging work across light and space, sound and synesthesia, aesthetics, form, and perception. Through advanced in-depth research, she has examined spatial, topological, and scientific phenomena of light, sound, and color since the 1990s, a foundation for her explorations in the experiential, the participatory, and the experimental. In the monumental neon sculpture series ELEMENTS I - VI (2018-2021), with enveloping sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV, V, VI) and C.C. Hennix (ELEMENTS III), the artist has transformed space and challenged our awareness of spatial limits, our presence within the infinitesimal, and empyrean experience. Senstad’s neon practice is now presented in book form: NEON GUIDES ME, published by Praun & Guermouche, and includes texts by JG Thirlwell in conversation with Patrick Rolandelli, Catherine Christer Hennix, Andres Kurg. Erik Meling, Dr Aura Seikkula, Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, Marianne Solberg, and Sarah Walko.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, video, neon sculpture, land art, and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with sensorial aesthetics and the transformative—the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad has exhibited widely internationally, including at Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Tallin (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2018), Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2018), K4 Gallery, Norway (2017), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2017), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015). In 2020, Senstad was awarded the prestigious Arts Council Norway Government Grants for Artists. She has, since 1996, received numerous artist grants from Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde (NO), Forbundet Frie Fotografer (NO), Billedkunstnernses Vederlags Fond (NO), Foundation for Contemporary Art and the Rauschenberg Foundation’s emergency grants (USA). Senstad was raised in Singapore and Norway; today, she lives and works between New York and Oslo, Norway. Forthcoming exhibition; Kunsthall Regelbau 411, Denmark, 2023. 

 

JG Thirlwell is an Australian-American composer, producer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Thirlwell has released over thirty albums under his various pseudonyms including Foetus, Manorexia, Xordox and Steroid Maximus. JG has completed commissions for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Alarm Will Sound, and many more. He is a member of the “freq_out” sound-art collective, curated by CM Von Hausswolff, and has created several solo sound installations. JG performs live solo and with his own chamber ensembles. He has collaborated with Karen O, Noveller, Zola Jesus, Helm, Lydia Lunch, Tony Oursler, and dozens more. Thirlwell creates the musical score for the Emmy-winning FX show Archer, and Adult Swim / Cartoon Network show The Venture Bros. Thirlwell and Senstad have collaborated on numerous exhibitions and film projects since 2000. 

 

Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the New York City area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among many other national and international collections. His work has also been featured on the cover of Artforum magazine. He is currently an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, contributing articles and criticism since 2012. His most recent show of paintings opened in February 2020 at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York City. 

 

Praun & Guermouche is a Stockholm-based publishing house established in 2020 by graphic designer Sandra Praun and artist Oscar Guermouche, which focuses on art, photography, theory, essays, and artists’ books. The core of their collaboration is the translation of artistic œuvres, projects, or individual artworks into book form. P & G believe that the way books convey art has intrinsic value, and accordingly the books they produce both reflect and complement the art. 

The Emily Harvey Foundation has developed an ambitious and comprehensive art/event program that draws on its rich history, art collection, and archive grounded in Fluxus, Concept Art, Mail Art, and Performance Art. Artworks from the EHF collection are regularly lent to temporary exhibitions worldwide, and the EHF archive is open to scholars. The Emily Harvey Foundation art program concerns itself with supporting ideas resistant to frameworks of easy legibility. Its emphasis is on giving voice, and momentary material form, to discursive and process-based practices. In this historical moment, much of what we do would be impossible, and unfeasible at almost any other site. Show by show, we aim to nurture experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches, while generating a spectrum of alternatives to other more solid contexts for contemporary practice. 



The publication of NEON GUIDES ME and the art works in the book have been made possible with the generous support of Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Audio and Visual Fund, Arts Council Norway Governmental Artist Grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV).

Supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York.

Audio-Visual Partner Me On Air 

Digital Media Partner Archive Culture

Wine by Bodvár - House of Rosés


Book Credits
NEON GUIDES ME – Anne Katrine Senstad
Published by Praun & Guermouche, Sweden
Printing and binding: Rotolito S.p.A. / Nava Press S.r.l., Milan, Italy
ISBN 978-91-527-1427-0 
Edition: 600

Coney Island Film Festival Sept 16-18

 

SEPT 16-18, 2022: We are proud to be part of the legendary Coney Island Film Festival in the short film section with MARGINALITÉS/MARGINALITIES - which is film no 3 of 4 short film works in my How We Live Together video art series featuring acclaimed American actor Bill Sage in 4 monologue readings of with audio by JG Thirlwell - The festival also includes screenings of the original The Warriors and a new documentary on the infamous NYC 70-80's club Max's Kansas City: Nightclubbing:the birth of Punk Rock (trailer here).

Festival Location: The Coney Island Museum and Sideshows at the Seashore, Sept 16-18.

Tickets are now available for the 22nd Annual Coney Island Film Festival which takes place September 16-18th! We're back in full effect with our opening night screening and party, a Warriors screening and 97 films in a jam packed weekend. Tickets for individual screenings are only $8 (same price since the fest started in 2001!) $12 for The Warriors and there's a variety of affordable festival pass options! Support the arts in Coney, hang out with filmmakers, watch movies!

Film schedule and Info HERE and:

https://www.coneyisland.com/coneyislandfilmfestival

MARGINALITÉS/MARGINALITIES is the third in a series of four short films Senstad created during the pandemic of 2020-21 in collaboration with acclaimed actor Bill Sage and JG Thirlwell on audio management. Each chapter is a performative reading - a cinematic internal monologue extracted from French philosopher Roland Barthes 1977 university lecture series How To Live Together, on societal conditions for tolerance through ideorrythmic living formats as an analytical overview of a transformational era of entropy, chaos and regeneration. Sage's embodiment of Barthes philosophical lectures in his monologue readings and his self-filmed performances during the pandemic, creates a shared activation and a real time response to the human experience of living through larger societal crisis as it is happening as a way of embodying transformation.

In contemplating ethics of citizenry, states of isolation, disenfranchisement and marginalization of the individual, and the societal erosion taking place globally, the film unfolds and journeys through the critical eye and visual poetry of the internal voice of Barthes philosophical language.

By drawing lines through the history of religious monastic systems, anthropological and spiritual forensics, and the agency of the human experience, Sage's performance reveals the history and conditions of power and oppression in relation to our autonomous space.

The series of films are each around 10-12 minutes long and present vignettes of stream of consciousness imagery inspired by Barthes text material that Sage embarks on reinterpeting, with contemplative scenes on societal transformation, archival footage and documentary street shots, witnessing life through the pandemic in New York, one of the hardest hit cities in the world in the spring of 2020 and its aftermath.

With generous support from BKV/ Norske Billedkunstnere.

Galleri Balder August 18th, 2022

SALONG BALDER -  opening Reception Aug 18th, 6-8 pm

Sverre Aurstad

Bertil Greging

Christian Houge

Stine Loe Jenssen

Raymond Mosken

Tom Sandberg

Anne Katrine Senstad

Erik Skabo

Jan Walaker

Stig Marlon Weston

Galleri Balder

Riddervolds gate 9

Oslo, Norway

http://www.galleribalder.com

Anne Katrine Senstad & Aura Seikkula: Artistic expertise and curatorial...

An artist talk with Anne Katrine Senstad's on her practice with curator and Art historian Aura Seikkula in February this year as part of a seminar at Turku University. The talk, Artistic Expertise and Curatorial Strategies took place on zoom with Turku University in Finland, organized in partnership with Art Promotion Center Finland/Taike, Turku University and Turku Museum Centre. 

Expanding horizons of art - New artistic expertise

 

Expanding Horizons of Art - New Artistic Expertise - Webinar series - Finland

Thu 13.1. Time 14.00 - Thu 17.2.2022 Time 19.00 

Webinar series

In the series of lectures organized by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Turku UAS’ Arts Academy and Turku Museum Centre, Finnish and international professionals from the field of contemporary art come together to share their work in the expanding horizons of public art. How do digital technologies shape our conception of art (today)? How is the new expertise shown in artistic working processes? What types of phenomena does art deal with at this moment in time? 

Lectures and speakers 

13.1. 14–16    Kalle Nio & Hans Rosenström: Hetki julkisessa tilassa (in Finnish) 
20.1. 14–16    Maija Kovari, Kristiina Ljokkoi & Ville-Matti Rautjoki: Näkökulmia nykytaiteen tilaamiseen (in Finnish) 
27.1. 14–16    Matterlurgy & Taru Elfving: At the edges of vision (in English) 
3.2.  14–16     Sanna Lehtinen & Denise Ziegler (in Finnish) Taide ja valta arjen kaupunkitilassa (suomeksi) 
10.2. 14–16    Erich Berger & Björn Kröger/ Bioart Society: Navigating the fine madness of art and science (in English) 
17.2. 17–19    Anne Katrine Senstad & Aura Seikkula: Artistic expertise and curatorial strategies (in English) 

The lectures are arranged in Finnish and English on Zoom.  

Register here by 11th January.

 

The series of lectures is a part of Arts Promotion Centre Finland’s development programme for artistic expertise and mediation, and it is coordinated by Regional Artist Annika Dahlsten. Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Henna-Riikka Halonen and Arts Coordinator Riina Kotilainen are responsible for the implementation at Turku UAS’ Arts Academy and Senior Curator Ville-Matti Rautjoki at Turku Museum Centre. 

And, Already, Words - Yi Gallery, NY - Jan 8th - March 5th, 2022

 

Opening Saturday, January 8

3-6 PM

AND, ALREADY, WORDS

Contemporary Text-based Work

A Special Group Exhibition

On view through March 5

Featuring work by

Anne Katrine Senstad

Katherine Duclos

Cecilia Abeid

Li Xia

Sun Young Kang

This exhibition is both a love letter to the use of text in visual art and a probe into the power of words as a medium of expression. The artists in the exhibition, whose work ranges from neon sculpture, ceramics and oil painting to the radical use of ephemeral materials, such as breast milk on paper, have adopted innovative strategies of authoring, reproducing and recontextualizing language. Formations of language, with their infinite visual and perceptual possibilities, become conceptually and aesthetically striking images that invite diverse interpretations. These personal, political and poetic statements ruminate on consumerism, mass communication and human connection.

YI GALLERY

254 36th Street, Suite B634 (Buzzer 022)

Brooklyn, NY 11232

N, R, D to 36 ST Brooklyn

Industry City, Building 2

Creative Workshops B/C Elevator to 6R

(Next to Supernatural Shop)

Inquiries on gallery-yi.com or email info@gallery-yi.com

In compliance with the New York City mandate, visitors 5 and older must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter the gallery. Visitors 18 and older are also required to show a valid I.D. Masks are required regardless of vaccination status.

IMMERSIVE LIGHT PBS Channel 13 New York

 IMMERSIVE WORLD now on PBS Channel 13 in New York, RAI 5 in Italy and Channel 1 + Arte in Brazil. Featuring my light sculptural work ELEMENTS in Episode 7, Season 1 alongside Dan Flavin/DIA Art Foundation, James Turrell and Anthony McCall.

MMERSIVE.WORLD | EPISODE| Immersive Light

Light is one of the most powerful tools that artists use to create aesthetic immersive environments. James Turrell and Dan Flavin make this kind of abstract work, and are profiled in this episode. We also meet Anthony McCall and Anne Katrine Senstad, whom one could describe as sculptors of light.

Link to PBS 13 IMMERSIVE LIGHT here

Welcome Back - Maggi Peyton Gallery, Manhattan Borough President's Office, New York

 

How We Live Together, Anne Katrine Senstad

Photo courtesy of Yi Gallery 

Welcome Back

Maggi Peyton Gallery

Hosted by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office and President Gale Brewer

October 4th to December 6th, 2021

1 Centre St. South Entrance, 19th Floor

New York, NY 10007

(347) 239-9086

Opening Reception Monday, October 4th, 5-7pm

Maggi Peyton Gallery inside the Manhattan Borough President’s Office at 1 Centre St. South Entrance, 19th Floor, New York, NY.  

RSVP: events@manhattanbp.nyc.gov

The gallery is open to the public weekdays from 10am to  5pm. 

Welcome Back is a group exhibition featuring over thirty artists’ responses to the unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic. Curated by Jean Sonderand for Maggi Peyton Gallery, and hosted by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, the exhibition is an opportunity for artists and the public to come together and consider the variety of public and private experiences we have faced over the last two years. Welcome Back is a celebration of our resiliency as a city and culture, and an invitation for New Yorkers to consider how we will grow and adapt as we recover over the years to come. 

Each artist in this exhibition had a unique response to the pandemic, but certain themes jump out as we look at the collection as a whole. Some ticked away the time reading the daily updates in the news, with headlines and crosswords marking the uncertain trajectory of an unfolding, global crisis. PPE, consisting of masks, gloves, and medical ephemera, littered our lives and our streets, accumulating physically as well as symbolically. With the world cut off, the familiar shape of our homes was radically transformed. Our bedrooms and offices became safe havens in which entire lives were carried out, while a view out of a window became a portal to an unfamiliar world of vacant streets. Meanwhile, our obsession with sanitation led others to re-investigate the meaning of touch and contact, especially when physical closeness could spell a death sentence for those we cherished. Scarcity, uncertainty, and boredom drove us nearly mad, but the same forces inspired many to re-envision our lives, our communities, and our aspirations. 

Welcome Back is a reflection of how our sensibilities have changed and adapted to this ‘new normal’, and an invitation to embrace these experiences as they guide the trajectory of our recovery, in New York and beyond.

How We Live Together is a text alteration of French philosopher Roland Barthes 1977 lecture series on idiorrhythmic living formats and novelistic simulations of some everyday spaces in relation to societal ideals, tolerance and notions of oppression. The change of Barthes How To Live Together to Senstad's WE activates ideas of how We want to shape our common future as community.

The opening reception for Welcome Back will be held on Monday, October 4th, 5-7pm, at Maggi Peyton Gallery inside the Manhattan Borough President’s Office at 1 Centre St. South Entrance, 19th Floor, New York, NY.  The gallery is open to the public weekdays from 10am to  5pm. 

Radicall Light - Moments within Monument

A short video traveling through details of Senstad's monumental neon light, glass tube and sound installation Radical Light with an enveloping soundscape by composer and musician JG Thirlwell. From Seinajoki Kunsthall and Kai Art Center. in Collaboration with Arts Promotion Center Finland. Video by AKS Studio

SC.01.01 - 20th anniversary edition

 

SC.01.01 20 by Anne Katrine Senstad with sound by JG Thirlwell. 

A 20 second clip from the restored 2001 video

Title: SC.01.01.

Artist: Anne Katrine Senstad

Music: JG Thirlwell, courtesy of Entopic Music Scale: 4:3 Stereo Year: 2001 (Unique 2001- 2021 edition) SC.0101. by Anne Katrine Senstad was created in 2001 as a visual glitch work accompanied by a glitch sound composition by composer and musician JG Thirlwell as a unique work on technology, glitch and the beauty of noise -as audio visual poetry. The video marks the first collaboration between Senstad and Thirlwell who have continued to collaborate on projects ever since. The video work was first screened with curator Koan Jeff Baysa in New York in 2003. A series of photographic works also derived from Senstad's sound files, and exhibited in the group show PLEXI at Galleri JMS in Oslo, Noway in 2002 and included in Senstad's solo show ONE, at the same gallery. These "Light and Sound Panels" works, were also exhibited at Transient NYC as a 2 person exhibition with Matthew Abbott (RIP) in 2003, curated by Laura Raisanen of Jeffrey Deitch Gallery as a solo curatorial project. On SC.01.01: Senstad created the early experimental and poetic glitch video through several stages of digital and manual actions, experimental analogue camera work and film/video editing. The material is self referential: sound as material to cut up and scratch, as documentation, visual manifestation and visual compositions, - and a record of its existence and language. The video material was first filmed onto DV tape on a Sony Camera from a no-longer existing sound program from Senstad's own sound productions that consisted of cut up narrative sound . The obsolete sound program ran on a 90's G3 Mac. Thirlwell's sound piece is a published composition on Entopic Music, from glitched noise as tones and notes, recomposed as a musical piece. it inhabits a melancholy, nostalgia and an almost human presence through its technology and the CD/DVD as material. The era of the late 1990's marks the very end of analogue sound, where music fully stepped into the digital age, which altered the music industry and musicians lives forever. Today, we are at a similar threshold of agency.

Radical Light - Matti de Jong Performance

Finnish dancer Matti de Jong performs in Radical Light by Anne Katrine Senstad with an enveloping sound environment by JG Thirlwell at Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland, 

The video is by Finnsh photographer and filmmaker Tuuka Kiviranta

Seinajoki Kunsthall

June 16 - Sept 4, 2021

A response to Radical Light through movement as the fifth element - space, light, sound, matter(architecture) - movement.

 

Video still images: 

Authentic Movemement in Radical Light

 

Seinajoki Kunsthall event Sept 3, 2021: an immersive Performance with Finnish dancer and movement therapist Aisha Korpula. 

Authentic Movement in Radical Light is a dance work that invites the public to experience immersivity through the cognitive system and physical expression in a spatial totality experience of light and sound - to open the senses.

The performance is a solo work by dancer, choreographer and wellness artist Aisha Korpela, that explores potentialities of elevation through the sensory system,  experience of timlessness and elements of infinity inherent in Senstad's experiential light, sound and spatial installation  “Radical Light - Elements VI” with an enveloping sound composition by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell. The performance is an immersive whole that allows the participant to observe the work by challenging our perceptual experiences.

Photocredit: Katariina Vestergård