As we round the corner to the final stage of Preternatural, Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad returns, this time flooding St. Brigid’s with ambient light, colour, and resonance for her site-specific video and sound installation, Kinesthesia for Saint Brigid. Colour Kinesthesia is part of a larger body of work by Senstad, which explores the multi-sensorial experience of the body enveloped in light and sound. At St. Brigid’s, a video projection flooding the rear of the space emits a striking arrangement of colour sequences: a startling blood red — a vibrant blue — a warm green — a stunning yellow, which transgresses through the space to envelop and seemingly disintegrate its architectural details. The cinematic score that will accompany Kinesthesia for Saint Brigid was composed by eminent musician/composer/producer and DJ, JG Thirlwell.
PRETERNATURAL PRESENTS
Kinesthesia for Saint Brigid
By Anne Katrine Senstad
Music by JG Thirlwell
Curated by Celina Jeffery
Closing event: Friday, February 17th, 5-8pm
Please join us on Friday, February 17th from 5pm - 8pm at Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts to mark the closing of Anne Katrine Senstad's site-specific installation Kinesthesia for Saint Brigid and celebrate the successful run of Preternatural.
Anne Katrine Senstad will talk about her work at 6pm.
St Brigid’s Centre for the Arts
310 St. Patrick Street
Ottawa ON K1N 5K5
The preternatural, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics.
They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between
nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead.
The confusion between animate and inanimate is a primary concern, a surreality
which unites with the preternatural’s love for reveling in the mysterious: bizarre
fragments, unreadable words, objects of absurd scale, and distortions of the
relativity of time and space flourish throughout this exhibition.
-Celina Jeffery, Curator
Anne Katrine Senstad’s site-specific video and sound projection installation Kinesthesia
for Saint Brigid examines the phenomenology of light, color, sound, ocular perceptions
and spatial relations in dialogue with the deconsecrated church, St Brigid in Ottawa, Canada.
The installation piece is meditative, pulsating and hypnotic in its investigation of the sensorial and
experiential.
As such, Thirlwell’s score corresponds with the journey of pure light and color projections and
frequential wavelengths in the former cathedral space. Thirlwell’s composition careens between
soft plucked interludes to musiq concrete visions to cinematic mind fields, with a meticulous
marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds of mysterious unknown quantities.
Contact: info@preternatural.ca
For further information please visit www.preternatural.ca
Artist bio: Anne Katrine Senstad has exhibited widely internationally at Zendai Moma in Shanghai, Galleri JMS in Oslo, Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, Norway, HCP in Houston, Gary Snyder Gallery and Bjørn Ressle Gallery New York, MOMA Ukraine in Kiev, The Eva Peron Museum in Buenos Aires and with KK Projects in New Orleans during Prospect 1. She was recently awarded a public commission by OAC Percent for Art Program in Ohio and the internationally renowned architectural firm Snøhetta, who are responsible for the Ground Zero memorial, NY and the Oslo Opera House. Her work is represented in private, corporate and museum collections.
St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts: 302 St. Patrick St., Ottawa, Ontario. Open: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1 pm - 8 pm. Admission: Free. For more info see: http://saintbrigidscentre.com/