BORN AGAIN VIRGIN - Airmattress Gallery

 Air Mattress Gallery group exhibition Aug 8 - Sept 7, 2020

Born Again Virgin - A Midsummer Nights Dream. Curated by Mark Demuro and Ben Peterson.

Artist: Al Hansen, Alex Katz, Andy Warhol, Anne Katrine Senstad, Dietar Busse, Durhirwe Rushemeza, Dustin Spence, Jerry Torre, Justin Olerud, Kenny Schachter, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeoise, Marcel Duchamp, Mary-Ann Monforton, Maynard Monrow, Mike Ousterhout, Nan Goldin, Nancy Sadler, Peter Coffin, Raynes, Birkbeck, Roland Gebhardt, Sarah Charlesworth.

Borealis no 20, 2020 ( acrylic, screw and bolts) - view on Artsy here

Portal for Perpetuity II, 2020 - (Neon, semi transparent mirrors, transformer) - view on Artsy here

Below: Color Kinesthesia 6A4.2.2., 2012 ( view on Artsy Here) 

Scale: 50 x 60 inches

Photographic C Print from original color film Negative

Installation images above and belo : inserted into invented collectors homes or public collections as a commentary on media disinformation, art value manipulation and the state of the art as a market commodity the past 30 years.

UTOPIE / UTOPIA - How We Live Together

 

UTOPIE / UTOPIA

A READING PERFORMANCE BY BILL SAGE

RECORDING RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, JULY 31ST, 6PM EST - to Aug 15th, 2020

This event is organized by artist Anne Katrine Senstad, in conjunction with her solo exhibition How We Live Together at Yi Gallery, on view July 17 - August 15, 2020. The exhibition examines the value systems and ethics that define citizenry and our common history, as well as speculates on how future generations will work together to shape our common destiny. Senstad uses text, installation and color interactions to cast light on the resurgent tribalism of our times.

Visit the HOW WE LIVE TOGETHER vimeo video page here

Title: UTOPIE/UTOPIA

Length: 10.27 min.

Format: 1920x1080 SD

Sound: Stereo

Creator: Anne Katrine Senstad

Actor: Bill Sage

Sound: JG Thirlwell

In exploring the nuances of idiorrhythmic living formats, Senstad invites acclaimed actor Bill Sage to reinterpret Roland Barthes pedagogical methods and critical worldview from five decades ago in the context of our contemporary experience in a changing world. Produced during the 2020 pandemic, the performative reading in film format was achieved by remote collaborations between artist Anne Katrine Senstad, actor Bill Sage and composer/sound producer JG Thirlwell. By jointly reshaping and exploring new systems for expression and cultural production, the artists simultaneously respond to the current human experience of isolation, societal and political deconstruction through the absorption of Barthes structural novelistic lectures and internal dialogue on idiorrhythmic living, and ways of understanding community and individuality, spaces, and rhythms of life for our possible futures. 

In his chapter on a utopia of idiorrhythmic Living-Together, Barthes considers our “Sovereign Good” a form of tactful cohabitation and an inner state - the state of tolerance is considered a place of utopia. Sage creates a rich texture of spirit and authenticity, embodying the internal conversation and experience of the human enterprise transmitted through the character he created for the piece - a navigational journey through a meditative analysis as understanding our sense of place. 

The title of Senstad's exhibition, How We Live Together determines an action in how we want to shape our common future. Senstad reauthors Barthes 1977 university lectures titled How To Live Together, which present a passive set of contemplative possibilities organized after literary and fantasmatic methods - the academic observational criteria. In activating the title through an actor’s voice and delivery, Sage transmits the experience and embodiment of our inner dialogue and relation to the self. In the postmodern society that evolved after Barthes social philosophies, the disenfranchisement of societal and spiritual value has escalated to the critical crescendo we are now living with, globally manifested in illness of the human soul and body, isolation, displacement and quarantined living. Another French philosopher, Baurdillard spoke about a societal simulacra and the postmodern living mode that removed the individual from any form of natural self and common value system. With popular culture emplifying this loss of human spirit, Baurdillard examined how the film American Psycho is the epitome of the postmodern human. In the iconic business card scene, an assembly of wall street men including Bill Sage's character identify their sole value represented in a symbol of patriarchy, capitalism, spectacle and expendable identities. 

Text: Excerpt from book How To Live Together by Roland Barthes
Session of May 4, 1977 - Utopie/Utopia  
Page 130-132 

Bill Sage has appeared in over 40 films, stage and TV productions. Films include American Psycho, Boiler Room, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Insider and TV series include Law & Order, Boardwalk Empire and more. Sage is currently working with long time collaborator, indie film director Hal Hartley, on a new production entitled Where to Land, alongside Edie Falco and Parker Posey.

How We Live Together - Yi Gallery

ANNE KATRINE SENSTAD 

How We Live Together

ON VIEW: JULY 17 - AUGUST 15 
56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

To schedule an appointment please email:  info (at) gallery-yi.com

Yi Gallery is pleased to reopen the Project Room with an exhibition of new works by Anne Katrine Senstad. How We Live Together, on view from July 17 through August 15, that examines the value systems and ethics that define citizenry and our common history, as well as speculates on how future generations will work together to shape our common destiny. Senstad uses text, neon, installation and color interactions to cast light on the resurgent tribalism of our times.

Press Release HERE 

VISIT Yi Gallery on ARTSY here 

ACLU Fundraising Tote:

100% of the proceeds from each sale will be donated to ACLU (The American Civil Liberties Union), a nonprofit organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people. 

Published on the occasion of Senstad's solo exhibition How We Live Together" at Yi Gallery Project Room in 2020. Metallic gold screen print on black canvas tote bag. Published by Yi Gallery Books. 

Limited Edition of 60 including a few signed copies.

HERE to order a tote and support the ACLU  

SIRP May 27 2020

Anne Senstad talks about creating “Radical Light,” how to have a neon geek fest, and why we need to reclaim human experience beyond technology-based art.

Interviewed by Karin Laansoo, May 2020

For English version on Kai Art Center website please click here 

CULTURAMA HOMEMADE #17 I ANNE KATRINE SENSTAD

 



Discover in this HOMEMADE video Anne Katrine Senstad's monumental solo exhibition Radical Light. Put on hold during confinement and now reopened at Kai Art Center in Tallinn, Estonia, this sculptural environment is an invitation to perceive light and sound in their totality, to experience their transformational effect. Enveloped by JG Thirlwell's sound composition, Radical Light immerses and deconstructs our perception of space.
Presented in the June 2020 issue of CULTURAMA Paris

Kai Art Center: 

A new interview published in SIRP, Estonia on Kai Art Center Website in English: 
Interview with Anne Senstad by Kai center



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PRODUCTION TEAM: Karin Laansoo & Triin Metsla INSTALLATION TEAM: Tõnu Narro & Mihkel Lember Film by Stella Saarts Sound environment by JG Thirlwell Aerial footage by Tõnu Narro Courtesy of Kai Art center / AKS Studio 

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Trans/Essence - Uj Kriterion Gallery - Transylvania

Trans/Essence -Anne Katrine Senstad
April 3 - May 25, 2020
Curated by Reszegh Botond

Uj Kriterion Galeria
Miercurea-Ciuc, Transylvania
Harghita, Romania

On Trans/Essence - Photographic works 1997 - 2017 

The exhibition Trans/essence offers a window into Anne Katrine Senstad’s lifelong examinations on perception and the phenomenology of light, color and space through the optics of the sensorial and the camera lens. These works seek to examine immateriality and the experiential domain of the senses through processes of re-materialization, geometry and reinterpretation of form. Circling back to the source, there is a re-conceptualization , reconsideration and reinvestigation of inhabited space and the realms of essence and origin. The photographic works in the exhibition are interconnected through a shared source; projections of light and color inhabiting space through time, a total removal of object and ontological experience of the sources.  In Robert Smithson’s text on the modernist city as representation of a non-objective world, Senstad pursues what lies beyond the observable to find truths in nullification and antimatter. 

           

There is a narration in the amalgamation of colors transpiring time and projected onto corners and walls as subject for the photographic series Color Kinesthesia, where pure color fields exist between mind and matter.  In the photographic works deriving from these very color projections, we find an occurrence of materialization of the immaterial non-object,  an action of arresting alogon and harnessing it onto the decisive moment’s celluloid surface of color film.  Similarly the very same light and color immateriality creates the substance of Senstad’s earliest works, Essence of Light, objectifying and materializing that which cannot be held and re organizing light and color into the folds of the circle, the physical and the ephemeral into entity and a phoneme shaping of time. 

Opening reception in quarantine April 3rd - a documentation video by curator Reszegh Botond in Hungarian and English during the pandemic of 2020:

Slide show installation views, sound by Cecilie Richards (©C.Richards/Hoodie):