The River of Migration Video

The River of Migration, a Light and Landworks installation by Anne Katrine Senstad at Life is Art Foundation West in California. The Land Art piece is a permanent installation created for the inaugural opening of Life is Art Foundation West - an extension of KK Projects in New Orleans, October 2010. Curated by Kirsha Kaechele. Video by artist Anne Katrine Senstad. 4.54 min

The River of Migration

The River of Migration by Anne Katrine Senstad

A permanent Light and Land installation curated by Kirsha Kaechele

Opening October 15th 2010

http://lifeisartfoundation.org

www.annesenstad.com

The inaugural exhibition opening of the land art foundation, Life is Art Foundation West in Sonoma, CA, Oct 15th 2010 will include 10 international artists.

THE RIVER OF MIGRATION STATEMENT

The River of Migration, consists of 72 solar power run lights, that are placed on a mountainside in a long consecutive line, creating a light contour of the landscape. The representational land and light piece creates a spatially drawn line and a geographical mapping of the Californian landscape, as well as a gesture to the politics of migration. The intention of light, represents a river of light and a human river of the nameless. The lights are placed as a gesture to those who failed to cross the US-Mexican boarder, or have been murdered in the process. This permanent installation brings attention to the current US boarder politics, the erection of the boarder wall towards Mexico, the fact that California was once Mexican/native American, the violent deaths of people attempting to cross the boarder, as in the murder of the 72 individuals from various Central and South American countries who resisted being used as drug traffickers in 2010.

As the solar panel lights are lit from dusk till dawn, when most people cross the boarders illegally, that physical practicality will serve to establish the phenomena of non-governmentally controlled migration. The notion of a long line of lights down a hillside, talks about the nature of migration, how bodies of peoples crossing long distances, will naturally walk in a sequential manner according to age, physical health, group importance and their task within the group.

The phenomena of artificial lights in a natural untouched landscape, talks about the notion of light and darkness, nature and the artificial, the environment and the untouched landscape providing a scenario for interaction and intention. The use of solar power lights emphasizes environmental and sustainable concerns by using light to create light.

The London Art Book Fair

The Norwegians Volume Two will be presented at London Art Book Fair 2010 with FFF/Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Norway

Designed by Pure + Applied, NY

Essays by Kjetil Røed and Malin Barth

By Anne Katrine Senstad 2009©

The London Art Book Fair 2010 will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery from 11am on the 24-26 September 2010.The London Art Book Fair is an annual event devoted to international art publishing. Hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery in association with Marcus Campbell Art Books, The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events. Exhibitors have been selected by an advisory board comprisingMarcus Campbell (rare book dealer); Tacita Dean (artist);Franz König (publisher & bookseller); Farshid Mousavi (Co-founder, Foreign Office Architects); and Soraya Rodriguez(Director, Zoo Art Fair) who have ensured that the fair includes representatives of the most vibrant, stimulating and diverse art book production. The fair will include a special preview on Thursday 23 September 2010 for booksellers, distributors, collectors, and the arts and literary press.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-art-book-fair

VERWERTUNG Interdisciplinary Arts Festival Berlin

Showing :

"Light Writes Always in Plural - Light Displacement, Section Three" 2009, at VERWERTUNG

June 25th - July 5th 2010

STATTBAD WEDDING

Gerichtstraße 65
13347 Berlin

Video Screenings "Verwertung"

CURATORS LAILA EVENSEN & PAUL PRENDERGAST

Paul Prendergast and Laila Evensen are co-curating two film/video programs for the Verwertung Arts Festival. The two different screenings will draw on artists interpretations of “Verwertung” within the framework of further sub categories.

All works are experimental shorts from an international artist base, with the aim to present a full picture of the current movements and trends taking place in contemporary film/video practice and also an educational glance back to rarely seen older work.

Presented Artists:

Bob Levene (UK), Alex Pearl (UK), Ina Helen Otzko (NO), Anne Senstad (NO), Rob Gawthorpe (UK), Christopher Gladwin (UK), Ben Gwilliams (UK), Peter MC Partlan (UK), Jo Millett (UK), Veronica Mota (MX), Daniela Gast (DE), Michael Smyth (IE), Paul Prendergast (IE), Laila Evenson (NO), Jennifer Baumeister (DE), Thad Povey(USA), Sylvia Schedelbauer(DE/JAP), John Smith (UK), Venessa Renwick (USA), Venessa Renwick (USA),Thorsten Fleisch(DE), Ronnie Close(IE), Yvonne Bucheim(DE), Craig Baldwin(USA), Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne(IE).

Ecoartspace Benefit Exhibition at Exit Art

Ecoartspace first NYC benefit exhibition "What Matters Most?".

The show and benefit party will be hosted by Exit Art in NYC from April 15 – 28th, 2010.

Report on The Reason for my Life

The Reason for My Life - an installation by Anne Katrine Senstad at Museo Evita, Buenos Aires - Argentina

The Video Report on The Reason for My Life is a documentation on Senstad's installation and happening at The Eva Peron Museum/Museo Evita in Buenos Aires Nov 25-29 2009, in collaboration with VIBA Festival.

The Reason for My Life is a site specific and situation piece based on Eva Peron's autobiography and a play on

de- and re-construction of words and language (English, Spanish and Chinese).

The project was curated by Andrew Utt and produced by Carolina Montejo.

In collaboration with:

VIBA

Museo Evita

ThisIsNotAGallery

Embajada de Noruega

The Norwegian Cultural Council/Fond for Lyd og Bilde

Diaspora USA Chapter

1. Site specific installation The Light House at KK Projects in St Roch, New Orleans, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa Nov 2007- Feb 2008

2. Installation piece Diaspora USA Chapter at The Lab - NY, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Matt Semler May 2009

THE LAB (for installation + performance art) 


501 Lexington Avenue 
New York, NY. 10017



Diaspora USA Chapter - An installation by Anne Katrine Senstad

May 8 – 29th 2009

Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa

Diaspora USA Chapter

Senstad’s installation Diaspora USA Chapter is based on the remains of a hurricane Katrina damaged shotgun cottage in New Orleans. The original derelict cottage is the home of Senstad’s site specific installation The Light House at KK Projects, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa 2007/08, and the source for the video piece, Light Writes Always in Plural – Section Three, 2009. The video trilogy Light Writes Always in Plural – Section One, Two and Three is projected onto cardboard boxes, a suitcase and rubble in the space.

“The items used for the installation are arranged from memory of the remains of that particular cottage, and I have collected objects and paraphernalia from local sources that recreate a social/economic status of the displaced inhabitants”, says Senstad. The walls serve as the exterior of the cottage with a floodwater line and spray painted inspection signature that still remains in New Orleans to this day. TFW (which stands for Task Force Wildcat – a national Guard Unit) with indications of date of inspection, number of dead people found in house, number of dead people removed from house, and name of agency that performed the inspection.

The 4 ft office lights are arranged in a similar pattern as in the video and original installation. The objective for reference to the original installation, is based on aesthetic documentation and re-use of materials as a source for this new installation.

The Lab Video coverage on youtube of installation process:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w07EYiDYLI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Q6a6n6vss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnX1Z4j6gog