Screening
Chiasm of Lament: An Audio-Visual Trilogy by Anne Katrine Senstad
On Wednesday, June 11th, at 7pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative is honored to present CHIASM OF LAMENT, an audio-visual trilogy by longtime FMC member, multimedia artist Anne Katrine Senstad. Senstad will be in attendance to discuss the trilogy and present original prints, which are now for sale through our online store.
Chiasm of Lament is an audio-visual response to the transitory and transformational age we find ourselves in, where technology and generative information has been given spiritual and existential power. The title refers to crossing of paths that are melancholic in nature, a sphere of ambiguous transactions and embodied transformations that move in alternate or opposing directions.
In the video, Senstad works with technology as a method for deconstructing organic concentric form, light leaks, and transitory merges as material. Form and movement are reduced to glitches, sparkles, and flickering, harking to early space imagery, technological noise, and distributed signal error. The sound is likewise re-composed by Senstad from small parts extracted from Norwegian experimental electronic sound composer Knut Wiggen's original sound work "Resa" (Electronic Works, 1972-75), not by AI, but by the artist's hand, aesthetics, and vision, marked by editing, manipulating, seeing, and listening.
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Anne Katrine Senstad is an interdisciplinary artist based between Oslo and New York. Her practice is anchored in the intersection of photography, video art and film, installation art, light-based sculptural installations, and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the language of our cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with aesthetics, ethics, and criticism, the transformative and transcendental ideas of art, and social and philosophical practices. She has exhibited widely internationally since the 1990s in museums, galleries, institutions, and festivals. Biennales include 55th and 56th Venice Biennale, Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, and Prospect 3+ in New Orleans.