Chiasm of Lament II

Chiasm of Lament II is a response to the liminal spheres of technology and generative information that have been given spiritual and existential power. The title refers to crossing of paths that are melancholic in nature, where ambiguous transformations and ownership move in alternate or opposing directions. Senstad works with technology as method for de-constructing organic concentric form, light leaks, particles, and transitory merges, as aesthetic material and experiential narrative. Form and movement are reduced to glitches, sparkles, and flickering, harking to early space imagery, technology noise, and distributed signal error. The sound is likewise re-composed by Senstad from small sections extracted from the composition Resa (Electronic Works 1972-1975) by Knut Wiggen, a Norwegian pioneer in electronic and algorithmic music. The art work is an audio-visual meditation on technology and the processes of de-construction of aesthetics, inspired by conjunctural early avant-garde sound art and technology based visual art.

Anne Katrine Senstad
Anne Katrine Senstad is an interdisciplinary artist based between Oslo and New York. Her practice lies in the intersection of video and photo-based art, installation art, neon sculpture, light based spatial installations, and site-specific work, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive language in response to properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with aesthetics, ethics and criticism, – the transformative and the transcendental ideas of art, social, and philosophical practices. She has exhibited widely internationally since the 1990’s in museums, galleries, institutions, and festivals. Biennales include 55th and 56th Venice Biennale (respectively 2013 and 2015), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, and Prospect 3+, New Orleans. She is a member of The Film-makers Cooperative New York, and the founder of Temporal Spaces, an artist organized gallery and curatorial collective in New York.