Capitalism in the Public Realm

CHIASM OF LAMENT I, II, III (2025) – An Audio-Visual installation work for museum, institutional, site-specific, and gallery environments.

Festival Screenings: April 2025: CHIASM OF LAMENT II – The Film-makers Cooperative, New York as part of the New Year New Films Festival, and the exhibition Simulacra, ADAF 21st Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece.

The Film-makers Cooperative, New York – June 11th, 7 pm: CHIASM OF LAMENT – A presentation of the trilogy in a looped sequence, accompanied by rIsograph multiples from TheChiasm Collages series. Select works from the print edition are available through the Film-makers Coop Online Store.

ELZA KAYAL GALLERY, New York – Anne Katrine Senstad: The Jaguar in the Mirror, solo exhibition. July 11 – August 22, 2025. The exhibition presents neon sculpture, a mirror and projection installation of Chiasm of Lament I, II, III, accompanied by photographic prints from the series,Chiasm Collages. Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

Labocine – SCIENCE NEW WAVE CINEMA: August issue RESONANCE. CHIASM OF LAMENT III(2025).

Chiasm of Lament is a meditation on the liminal spheres of technology and generative information that have been given spiritual and existential power. The infinite appears as a topology that is melancholic in nature, a human biomorphic and cosmic separation. Crossing the threshold of ambiguous hybridity and mutant form, these elements merge in alternate, parallel, or opposing directions, dispersed in space.

Senstad works with analogue and contemporary technology as method for de-constructing spatial concentric form, light leaks, particles, and transitory merges, as an aesthetic material and experiential narrative. Form and movement are reduced to glitches, sparkles, and flickering, harkening to early space imagery, technology noise, and distributed signal error.

Senstad has composed three sound pieces from minor extractions from the composition Resa (from Electronic Works 1972-1975), by Norwegian composer Knut Wiggen, the foremost computer music pioneer in Scandinavia. The deconstructed sound works become new autonomous inventions, integrated with the visual material. A founding idea in Wiggen’s thinking was that the new technology at the time, and social-political circumstances required new musical expressions and composition methods in order to not fall into the aesthetics of the past. In that respect, CHIASM OF LAMENT can be described as an audio-visual meditation on the economy of perception, spheres of technology, processes of de-construction of the physical, and that of pure aesthetics conjunctural with minimalist early avant-garde sound art and technology based visual art.