Anne Katrine Senstad: Neon Guides Me
Please join The Emily Harvey Foundation in celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME by Anne Katrine Senstad, with a panel discussion with Senstad, composer JG Thirlwell, and Editor at Large, Brooklyn Rail, Tom McGlynn, followed by a video talk by publisher Praun & Guermouche. Neon is at the core of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s wide ranging work across light and space, sound and synesthesia, aesthetics, and perception - a foundation for her explorations in the experiential, the participatory, and the experimental. In the monumental neon sculpture series ELEMENTS I-VI with enveloping sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV, V, VI) and C.C. Hennix (ELEMENTS III), the artist transforms space and challenges our awareness of spatial limits, our presence within the infinitesimal and empyrean experience. Senstad’s neon practice is now presented in book form: NEON GUIDES ME, and includes texts by JG Thirlwell and Patrick Rolandelli, Catherine Christer Hennix, Andres Kurg. Erik Meling, Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, Aura Seikkula, Marianne Solberg and Sarah Walko.
Anne Katrine Senstad is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, video, neon sculpture, and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with sensorial aesthetics and the transformative—the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad has exhibited widely internationally, including Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Tallin (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015). In 2020, Senstad was awarded the prestigious Arts Council Norway Governmental grant for artists.
JG Thirlwell is an Australian-American composer, producer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Thirlwell has released over thirty albums under his various pseudonyms including Foetus, Manorexia, Xordox and Steroid Maximus. JG has completed commissions for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Alarm Will Sound, and many more. He is a member of the “freq_out” sound-art collective, curated by CM Von Hausswolff, and has created several solo sound installations. JG performs live solo and with his own chamber ensembles. He has collaborated with Karen O, Noveller, Zola Jesus, Helm, Lydia Lunch, Tony Oursler, and dozens more. Thirlwell creates the musical score for the Emmy-winning FX show Archer, and Adult Swim / Cartoon Network show The Venture Bros. Thirlwell and Senstad have collaborated on numerous projects since 2000.
Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the New York City area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among many other national and international collections. His work has also been featured on the cover of Artforum magazine. He is currently an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, contributing articles and criticism since 2012. His most recent show of paintings opened in February 2020 at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York City.
Praun & Guermouche is a Stockholm-based publishing house established in 2020 by graphic designer Sandra Praun and artist Oscar Guermouche, focused on art, photography, theory, essays, and artists’ books.
The publication of NEON GUIDES ME and the art works in the book have been made possible with the generous support of Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Audio and Visual Fund, Arts Council Norway Governmental Artist Grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV).
Supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York.
