Social Photograhy - Carriage Trade Fundraiser

 Dear Friends, 

in support of Carriage Trade Gallery in New York,  I'm glad to participate in the yearly fundraiser "Social Photography" alongside some great artists, art writers and authors, as well as musicians from Sonic Youth and other friends of Carriage Trade. 

 

On the issue of Social Photography and it's potential during our times, my donated editioned photograph to purchase at Carriage Trade is an architectural portrait and memorial of the symbolic modernist Y Building in Oslo designed by architect Erling Viksjø, with its rare exterior Pablo Picasso mural "The Fishermen", a gift to the Norwegian people that he created in collaboration with Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, one of many collaborations between the artists over 17 years.  

 

After it was announced in 2019 that the unique Y shaped concrete building was to be demolished by the Norwegian government, I felt as an artist and a citizen the need to record and experience it's sloping angles, materiality and volume, and the architecturally integrated Picasso/Nesjar mural on the facade still available to the public - to honor the building's beauty, historic prominence and it's symbolism of societal value systems, before extinction. 

 

To mark the sad anniversary for the July 22, 2011 tragedy in Norway that began at the very Picasso clad Y building in the governmental complex in downtown Oslo before tragically ending at the social-democrat party's youth camp at Utøya, finalized by the demolition of the Y building that was carried out in summer of 2020 during the pandemic in the face of international uproar - the photograph represents numerous questions we are left with from this era - but importantly; how could this happen?

 

The online preview for purchasing opens July 21, 2021 - and the exhibition opens to the public August 5th, 2021.

 

Warmly,

Anne K Senstad

Social Photography IX

Online Preview Begins:  Wednesday, July 21, 2PM socialphotography.carriagetrade.org  Online Sales Begin:  Friday, July 23, 2PM See details on purchasing below*  Gallery Exhibition:  August 5 - September 30, 2021

 

Now in its ninth year, Social Photography brings together cell phone pictures of participants from a wide range of disciplines, generations, and places. In the spirit of broad access to cell phone image making technology, the emphasis of the project leans toward sensibility and the anecdotal over skill and mastery of the medium of photography.

Taking advantage of technologies that allow for images to be sent from anywhere, which are then formatted, printed, and displayed in an in-person exhibition at carriage trade, the range of participants in Social Photography reflect both the gallery’s community in Lower Manhattan as well those associated with it in other parts of the world. Linking the virtual with the physical through an online display that is then presented in print form, Social Photography IX might be seen as a counterpoint to the increased placelessness of remote exchanges normalized in the pandemic-era.

Spanning nearly a decade, the growing, informal archive of Social Photography cell phone pictures occasionally reflect significant local, national, and international events (Occupy Wall Street, George Floyd protests, U.S. presidential elections, pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong) existing side by side with the everyday, the personal, the urban, and the domestic.

With a limited curatorial directive, trends are inevitable (a slight increase in pet photos this year is most likely a result of increased time spent indoors during the pandemic), while the elusive nature of where to “put” cell phone photography with respect to hierarchies of photographic image production (fine art photography, photojournalism, social media fodder) remains intact. What began in 2011 as an investigation of a novelty medium which simultaneously offered an alternative to the conventional non-profit benefit exhibition has become a kind of tradition, as it sustains and expands carriage trade’s community through its many participants, while helping support the gallery’s upcoming projects.

Social Photography IX Contributors:

Dennis Adams / Peggy Ahwesh / Lucas Ajemian / Graham Anderson / Michele Araujo / Michael Ashkin / Hallie Ayres / Mengfan Bai / Agnes Barley / James Barondess / David Baskin / William Beaudoin / Lisa Beck / Philip Bednarski / Peter Bellamy / Catherine Belloy / Amy Ben-Ezra Theodora Ben-Ezra / Liz Berg / Julien Bismuth / Joi Bittle / Lisa Blas / Ann Bobco / Richard Bosman / F.P. Boué / Norman Brosterman / Christine Burgin / Bibs Carlsen / Antoine Catala Alejandro Cesarco / Danny Chau / Myrel Chernick / Stella Cilman / Mary Clarke / Matt Connors Eli Coplan / Jeri Coppola / Fred Cray / Jody Culkin / Reilly Davidson / Mira Dayal / David Deutsch / Georgie Devereux / Daniella Dooling / Saskia Draxler / Paul Druecke / Anne-Claire Duprat / Peter Fend / Bernadette Fiscina / Elias Fokine / Andrea Frank / Susan Gamble & Michael Wenyon / Rainer Ganahl / Marc Ganzglass / Victor Esther Garcia / Hunter Gause / Jeff Gibson / Liam Gillick / Andrew Ginzel / Robert Goldman / Jasmine Golestaneh / Kathy Goncharov / Michelle Grabner / Ethan Greenbaum / Barbara Gundlach / Clair Gunther / Cynthia Hawkins-Owen / Anthony Hawley / Lorna Hayden / Duy Hoàng / James Hoff / Laura Hunt / Scott Indrisek / E. J. / Bryn Jayes / Neil Jenney / Lulu Jiang / Danielle Johnson / Werner Kaligofsky / Simone Kearney / Douglas S. Kehl / Mathias Kessler / Anjali Khosla / Anna Kleberg Tham / Essye Klempner / Hilary Kliros / Nicholas Knight / Udomsak Krisanamis / Nina Kuo Stephen Lack / Justen Ladda / Marc Lafia / Eugenia Lai / Erik LaPrade / Louise Lawler Elizabeth LeCompte / Mika Lee / Maggie Lee / Simon Leung / Max Levin / Matthew Li / Laura Li Wenxiao Li / Nora Ligorano / Lysjs Lim / Ming Lin / Jeanne Liotta / Hsiang Hsi Lu / Judith Luongo / Stephen Maine / Jiří Makovec / Sakura Maku / Adam Marnie / Vijay Masharani Esperanza Mayobre / Tom McGlynn / Jessica Mensch / Emilie Meyer / Molly Miller / Veronika Molnar / Sojung Moon / Andrew Moore / Lucy Mullican / Real Salvator Mundi / Muntadas Christian Nagel / Diane Nerwen / Chee Wang Ng / Isabella Norris / Almost Not / John Oakes Kristin Ordahl / Daylon Orr / Hannah Park / Laura Parnes / Stephan Pascher / Gelah Penn Andreas Petrossiants / Zoe Pettijohn Schade / Michael Poetschko / Jeff Preiss / R.H. Quaytman Lee Ranaldo / Xander Rapparport / Marshall Reese / Calvin Reid / Alejandro Ribadeneira Walter Robinson / Daniel Roche / Aura Rosenberg / Lorin Roser / Betty Roytburd / Ryan Rusiecki / Vicky Sambunaris / Valerie Saputra / Ken Saylor / John Schabel / Jeffrey Schiff / Heidi Schlatter / Kristina Schmidt / Nadine Schmied / Gary Schneider / Barry Schwabsky Michael Scott / Felicity Scott / Anne Katrine Senstad / Jacques Servin / Elaine Sexton / Trevor Shimizu / Zhi Shu / Amie Siegel / James Siena / Shelly Silver / Adam Simon Jason Simon / Day Sinclair / Leah Singer / Janice Sloane / Inna Smolina / Molly Soda / Claudia Sohrens / Andy Steinitz / Gary Stephan / Steel Stillman / Charles Stobbs III / Carol Szymanski / Sikay Tang Gwenn Thomas / Colin Thomson / Cassidy Toner / Momoyo Torimitsu / Dan Torop / Sophie Tottie / Kristal Uribe / Gail Vachon / Pegi Vail / Kate Valk / Ali Van / Lotte Van den Audenaeren Liselot van der Heijden / Virginia Inés Vergara / Doris Vila / Julia Wachtel / Chloe Walecki / Max Warsh / William Wegman / Barbara Weissberger / James Welling / Elvia Wilk / Tonero Williams Scott Williams / Nechama Winston / David Winter / B. Wurtz / C. Spencer Yeh / Sun You / H Spencer Young / John Yu / Michael Zansky / Jiajia Zhang

*Preview begins Wednesday, July 21 at 2PM / Online sales begin Friday, July 23 at 2PM

https://socialphotography.carriagetrade.org

1 print: $75.00 
2 prints: $120.00 (use promo code: 2/$120 at checkout)
3 prints: $150.00 (use promo code: 3/$150 at checkout)

IMMERSIVE WORLDS - EMMY nomination

EMMY NEWS 2021

IMMERSIVE WORLDS - an Arts TV series created by Producing Partners and has run for 2 seasons on ALL ARTS TV - a WNET PBS network, has been nominated for an EMMY Award as part of 14 ALL ARTS TV EMMY nominations.

In Season 1 Episode 8 - IMMERSIVE LIGHT, my work was presented alongside James Turell,  Dan Flavin, and Anthony McCall - a 40 minute episode journeying through experiential and perceptual art, as artists working sculpting light and working with light as matter.

Click HERE see the episode on ALL ARTS TV streaming.

Radical Light - Anne Katrine Senstad - Seinajoki Kunsthall

Radical Light - Elements VI

A documentary interview with Anne Katrine Senstad from the solo exhibition Radical Light at Seinajoki Kunsthall 2021. The exhibition Radical Light - presents two spatial installation works: Elements VI, a monumental, perceptual and experiential neon light sculpture installation - and The Sensory Chamber IV, a 111 minute sensorial 7 color video projection, sound and bed of salt installation work. Senstad’s immersive light sculpture environment is an invitation to encounter a perceptual and sensorial taxonomy of light and sound in pure form. In Radical Light Senstad examines the transformational potentials of experiential space and ethereal topologies. The installation is accompanied by a 38 minute looped sound composition by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell enveloping the vast light sculptural matrices and the sensory chamber in a unifying sensation of vastness and electric impulses of spatial noise and poetic grandeur. Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland. June 16 - September 4, 2021 In collaboration with Kai Art Center, Estonia and The Art Promotion Center Finland. https://www.seinajoentaidehalli.fi Video by www.halocreative.fi

Radical Light - Seinäjoki Kunsthall - Video doc

 

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Radical Light - Seinäjoki Kunsthall 

A documentary interview with Anne Katrine Senstad from the solo exhibition Radical Light at Seinajoki Kunsthall 2021. 

The exhibition Radical Light - presents two spatial installation works: Elements VI, a monumental, perceptual and experiential neon light sculpture installation - and The Sensory Chamber IV, a 111 minute sensorial 7 color video projection, sound and bed of salt installation work. 

Senstad’s immersive light sculpture environment is an invitation to encounter a perceptual and sensorial taxonomy of light and sound in pure form. In Radical Light Senstad examines the transformational potentials of experiential space and ethereal topologies. The installation is accompanied by a 38 minute looped sound composition by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell enveloping the vast light sculptural matrices and the sensory chamber in a unifying sensation of vastness and electric impulses of spatial noise and poetic grandeur.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland

 

June 16 - September 4, 2021

In collaboration with Kai Art Center, Estonia and The Art Promotion Center Finland. 

https://www.seinajoentaidehalli.fi

Video by www.halocreative.fi

Music for Plutocracy - Exhibition Documentary video

 

The multi sensorial exhibition Music for Plutocracy is the 5th experiential light and sound installation in the series entitled ELEMENTS by Anne Katrine Senstad with an enveloping sound environment by JG Thirlwell. 

S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway

Jan 16 - March 28, 2021.  

 www.s12.no

Music for Plutocracy Exhibition Review KUNSTAVISEN.NO

Link to : KUNSTAVISEN.NO 

 

On Eternities Tablets - Open Art Advisory

 

PRESS RELEASE OPENART is pleased to present: On Eternities Tablets:  Anne Katrine Senstad A Virtual Solo Exhibition Curated by Sarah Walko November 24 - February 28, 2021 VIDEO Link: Curatorial walk through with Sarah Walko HERE You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate the spirit of the music to stop at political boundaries …Or poetry, or art, or anything that is of value or matters in this world, and the next worlds.  Joy Harjo    Joy Harjo, the current poet laureate of the United States, writes a sets of instructions for the soul in her book of poems Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. The spirit of myth and the subconscious in everything, her imagery of immense landscapes that fuse with the vast stretches of our hidden mind and the politics of being human through her own experience as an indigenous woman in the US. They float across lands and time in a way that parallels the visual works presented in this exhibition by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad. The exhibition brings together three bodies of work based on light, space and perception, and investigate interior and exterior horizons. The title is from a Norwegian poet and writer, Hans Børli whose poems Senstad recently found revisiting and drawing on that also traverse eternity, nature and the human condition during crisis.   Elements III Blue is Senstad’s immersive light installation built of horizontal and vertical blue lights. A space both enclosed and open where the horizon in the distance is absent. Blue in nature makes us think of the sea and the sky. The experiential installation explores how light redefines a space, affects us from the physiological to the philosophical, how we define our “blue,” and define ourselves in vast placeless space. Senstad explains “I wanted to create a matrix of horizontal and vertical expressions of blue light, evoking fractal topologies. In space, distance is the present—the horizon extending far beyond our frame of reference as blue columns of light ascend to the empyrean. I wanted to interpret the idea of blue as a physical environment out of my own curiosity about the emotional, physiological, and scientific phenomena that constitute our concept of color and as we experience it. But also, one lifelong pursuit and desire in my work is to capture the impossible beauty and sensorial properties of color in the abstract.”  Elements III Blue Video clip - to see the full 10 minute exhibition video piece with sound by C.C. Hennix, please visit the  Open Art Advisory Vimeo page HERE Borealis Sculptures are Senstad’s color sculptures carrying notions of ephemerality that pervades all of her work but embedded now in a utilitarian plexiglass object of mass production. The shadows cast shades of blues, greens and whites onto the wall, dissolving planes and creating a sense that each piece is hovering just slightly from the surface. The compositions, form and color are minimalist but as you rotate around them new layers of transparent geometric colors create new forms and new colors. In their color, these sculptures reference the northern hemisphere, atmosphere, layers of ice in glaciers, mountains. “As a northern spherical phenomena the Aurora Borealis operates in electrically charged color compositions recorded in our retinal memory, evoking that of a stratospheric elusivity,” Senstad writes. “In these works, I can examine the relationship between ephemerality and spectral luminous shades within concrete planes. By harnessing it onto the physical surface, I objectify and materialize that which cannot be held and reorganize light and color into the folds of the physical. It plays with the transformation of the ephemeral into an entity and a phoneme shaping of time.”  Borealis no 010, 2020 Borealis No 020, 2020 Borealis No 030, 2020 Cosmosis Collages no 4A5C Composition 01, 2019 scale: 40 x 65 inches, edition of 6 Photographic C print from color film negative Cosmosis Collages no 4A5C Composition B1B, 2019 scale: 40 x 65 inches, edition of 6 Photographic C print from color film negative Cosmosis Collages no 4A530 Composition G1, 2019 scale: 40 x 65 inches, edition of 6 Photographic C print from color film negative Cosmosis Collages is the third final body of photographic works in this exhibition, developed in dialogue with the birth of Senstad's light sculpture installations Elements in 2018. The photographic works are conceptually and politically inspired by early 20th century movements such as the Suprematists and Constructivists. These aesthetics of utopian and scientific ideals that were deeply engaged in experiments in medicine, technology, philosophy, and psychology while simultaneously engaging in concepts of the cosmic universe. Practitioners sought deep spiritual alignment while experiencing the question what is it to be a being in a physical state and how can we master eternity, life, and mortality.  The title, Cosmosis refers to the idea of experiencing oneness with the universe as a result of these investigations and experiments. Senstad was influenced by these philosophers who sought to conquer "eternity" and become immortal. Senstad explains: "It's been of a great interest to me to examine what drives human activities towards the desire for eternal life as part of my work on ethics and perception, which I find is much of the psychological central underpinnings of the very existence of society. The illusion of vanity can serve as fuel for a forward driving search for new scientific discoveries, creative inventions and technological developments when it is benevolent, yet when it exists as a negative force, it swings the pendulum to a series of unsupportive manifestations such as loss of moral compass, immense greed, and various forms of societal madness such as cultism. One can say that an understanding of internal freedom and oneness with the universe, as in the psychological and emotional state of cosmosis, in various religious and esoteric philosophies, is a form of true attainment of happiness or satisfaction, and is represented as a state of infinite euphoria, a purity of spirit and ecstatic rapture. In eastern thought, we see that the release from all human suffering, and configurations for the path towards ultimate liberation, is the very idea of wealth itself." We are living in a time of global pandemic, severe climate change crises deeply affecting our blue oceans and worldwide uncertainty of our future. A question that roams from literal to philosophical in all of Senstad’s work is simply where is there and where will there be solid ground to stand on? It is not a question that demands an answer. Like Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice on uncertainty “Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given to you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”  It is this journey through the universe that Senstad’s work takes us on to ultimately end up delivering us back to ourselves, facing our own horizons, within this massive universe in which we are connected to it all. It is a reminder to not carry the questions, but to live them into infinity. Cosmosis Collages no 4A577 Composition 12, 2019 scale: 40 x 65 inches, edition of 6 Photographic C print from color film negative  Cosmosis Collages 427.4A7 video sequence, 2020 Cosmosis Collage 427.4A7 – Composition no 204, 2018 Size: 32 x 44 inches.  Edition of 6 Photographic C print from color film negative Cosmosis Collage 6A42.2 – Composition no 1C2, 2018 Size: 32 x 44 inches. Edition of 6 Photographic C Print from collaged color film negatives Cosmosis Collage 1010 – Composition no 1B, 2018 Size:50 x 60 inches.  Edition of 6 Left: Cosmosis Collage 4A531220 – Composition no 20, 2018 Size: 40 x 65 inches.  Edition of 6 Right: Cosmosis Collage 4A52.1B.220 – Composition no 7B, 2018 40 x 65 inches.  Edition of 6   For inquires & press information: info@openartadvisory.com For sales inquires: Christine Lee christine@openartadvisory.com +917.224.0680 www.openartadvisory.com Images courtesy of the artist.