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

Scope Art Fair New York 2010

Anne Katrine Senstad
Title: Black Skull, 2008
Medium: Neon, Black Rubber, Wires, Wood,
Edition: 3
Size: 20x20x7 inches

Represented at SCOPE ART FAIR

New York, March 3-7 2010

Location: 62nd Street and Amsterdam Ave, NYC 10023

General Admission Fair Hours
: Thursday | March 4 | noon - 8pm
 - Friday | March 5 | noon -8pm Saturday | March 6 | noon - 8pm
 - Sunday | March 7 | noon - 6pm

Gallery Nine5 - Booth 09

24 Spring Street |NYC 10012
|PH/212 965 9995 | http://gallerynine5.com

THE WINTER SALON

Dec 12 2009 - Jan 20th 2010

	Opening Reception Dec 12th, 2009 - 1:00pm - 7:00pm
	B j ö r n R e s s l e A r t P r o j e c t s
	1 Great Jones Street
	New York, NY 10012 RAYMUND ABRAHAM – WILLIAM ANASTASI – CARL ANDRE – STUART ARENDS – AUGUSTA ATLA – ROBERT BARRY – CARLO BERNARDINI – JOSEPH BEUYS – DOVE BRADSHAW – ROSEMARIE CASTORO – YU CHEN-TA – CHUCK CLOSE – GEORGE CONDO – DINORAH DELFIN – MARK DeMURO – LINDA DiGUSTA – ROBERT G. EDELMAN – JACOB EL HANANI – CRIS GIANAKOS – RON GORCHOV – OSANG GWON – CHRISTIAN HAUB – NANCY HAYNES – DAVID HIGGINBOTHAM – JENE HIGHSTEIN – GARY HILL – MARY HRBACEK – NEIL JENNY – DAVID KAPP – KIKA KARADI – LINDA KARSHAN – ALEX KATZ – HA RHIN KIM – MIRU KIM – SONGYI KIM – SOL KJØK – TADAAKI KUWAYAMA – SOL LEWITT – ROBERT MANGOLD – ROBERT C. MORGAN – ANDY MOSES – GERARD MOSSÉ – RAKUKO NAITO – RICHARD NONAS – DENNIS OPPENHEIM – JANET PASSHEL – GEORGE QUASHA – GRACE RIM – WALTER ROBINSON – CONDY RYMAN – WILL RYMAN – KAREN SHIFF – ANNE SENSTAD – HOWARD SMITH – SUSAN SMITH – MAXWELL STEVENS – ALI VAN – BERNAR VENET – MERILL WAGNER – JOAN WALTEMATH – MARJORIE WELISH – MARK WIENER – THORNTON WILLIS – MARK ZIMMERMANN

Seeing As Believing: Phosphene Visions - Exhibition Dec 5th - Jan 24th 2010

Exhibition: Phosphene Visions - Dec 5 2009 - Jan 24th 2010

Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa

Video installation; Light Writes Always in Plural, Light Displacement - Section 2, 2009

Single Channel Video, 8,20 min

Edited and Sound Design by Manuel Sander

Below: stills from video installation

Eva Peron Museum exhibition - The Reason for My Life

Anne Katrine Senstad - LA RAZÓN DE MI VIDA

NOVEMBER 25 – 29^TH 2009

A video installation by Anne Katrine Senstad at the Eva Peron Museum

Curated by Andrew Utt in conjunction with Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires Festival/VIBA Festival

OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26^th, 7 - 9 PM

Eva Peron Museum/Museo Evita

Lafinur 2988 (1425), Buenos Aires, Argentina

http://museoevita.org

The exhibition is made possible with the generous support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – La Razón de Mi Vida/The Reason for My Life is an installation of work by Anne Katrine Senstad, a Norwegian artist, on display at the Evita Museum from November 25-29 2009. The installation, a projection of “La Razón de Mi Vida” in multiple languages, carries the legacy of Eva Peron’s mission and reminds us of conviction in one’s own beliefs, one’s mission.

The site-specific installation, an experience of light and words projected onto the historic Museo Evita building, is a further development of her previous Neon Sentence works exhibited at Zendai MOMA, Shanghai and Gallery Nine5 in New York. In this presentation, Senstad plays with the meaning of words, transforming them by breaking up letter combinations and creating new meanings through differing languages. Thus, Senstad plays with Wittgenstein’s ideas of perception and the mapping out of language. Language and words are transformed and given new weight in process.

The profundity of the sentence “The Reason For My Life”, combines the intensity and poetry of Eva Peron’s life with Wittgenstein’s essential idea of Language as Philosophy, captured in one sentence. Senstad adds the notion of language variables by including Chinese, English and Spanish, to add to the layers of symbols and direction of grids and patterns – thus exemplifying the universality of the meaning of words and language.

The work will be presented during Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires Festival, VIBA Festival. Senstad’s work at VIBA Festival includes her recent video work “Light Writes Always in Plural, Light Displacement – Section Two” 2008. It will be exhibited from November 22-29 at VIBA Festival (www.vibafestival.com) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first video art festival of Buenos Aires. “La Razón de Mi Vida/The Reason for My Life” will be publicized through VIBA Festival in conjunction with the Eva Peron Museum.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian artist who lives in New York and Oslo. She has exhibited widely internationally, including Elga Wimmer LLC, Bjorn Ressle Gallery, Gallery Nine5 and Gary Snyder Projects in New York, The Noorderlicht institution in Holland, The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, BOZAR Museum in Brussels, the Ministry of Culture in Monaco, Zendai Moma in Shanghai, KK Projects in New Orleans, Artfairs include PhotoMiami, DIVA Paris, Scope Miami amongst others.

Curator: Andrew Ütt : a at andrewutt.com

VIBA Festival: Marina Reyes Franco : marina at vibafestival.com

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