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Contact: sugarcanelabyrinth@gmail.com
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Fundraiser campaign for Exhibition
Indigogo Fundraiser Campaign - Help Support The Nature of Now exhibition and installation for Prospect 3 New Orleans Biennial Today! The Nature of Now includes The Sugarcane Labyrinth and The Swamp by Anne Senstad with sound by JG Thirlwell.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
The Nature of Now - The Swamp Excerpt
Excerpt from The Swamp by Anne Senstad.
Created for the exhibition The Sugarcane Labyrinth,
a Prospect 3 Satellite curated by Pamala Bishop.
Music by JG Thirlwell.
16:9
3.40 min
Stereo
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Daedalus
Daedalus, father of artists and architects.
The inventor of the
labyrinth, who fashioned
wings for himself and his son Icarus,
embodied the traits that should inform
the works of artists and architects;
imagination, inventiveness and technical ability.
wings for himself and his son Icarus,
embodied the traits that should inform
the works of artists and architects;
imagination, inventiveness and technical ability.
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Consolation of Philosophy
De consolatione philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy)
In five books, Boethius converses with a female
personification of philosophy,who appears to
offer him consolation; “You are playing with me,” I said,
“by weaving a labyrinthine argument from which I cannot escape.
You seem to begin where you ended and end where
“by weaving a labyrinthine argument from which I cannot escape.
You seem to begin where you ended and end where
you began. Are you perhaps making a marvelous
circle of
divine simplicity?”
Book III, prose 12 , Verse 96
Anicius Manulius Severinius Boethius (ca 480-524 CE)
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Landuse
it is also contextual. For example, a sixth generation
land-dweller, an oil and gas executive, and the worker
of a river barge on the Mississippi utilize the same
landscape, but often with disparate interests, making
it difficult to elucidate shared definitions of value,
ownership, and interconnectedness. As corporate
encroachment and aggregate industry denature
local communities, elegiac documentation suggests
we must look to the future implications of land misuse.
It is imperative that we ask ourselves who the changes
are affecting and what remains to be lost?
Photos by Anne Senstad
Music and Labyrinths
Musical labyrinths lead the listener into new keys
by way of
numerous modulations, misleading
them with enharmonic chords. The title of
Johann Sebastien Bach’s Kleines Harmonisches
Labyrinth composed in 1705,
alludes to the
sustained state of disorientation that is
induced on it’s
listeners.
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Monday, June 16, 2014
The Labyrinth that Solomon built
When you hear of a labyrinth, stranger,
That Solomon molded from his intellect and built with stones set in an arc:
Copy it’s structure, shape and diversity
True to scale, using strokes of dark ink,
And, in so doing, observe the innumerable turns,
Namely the perfectly round paths that lead from the inside to the outside
And then curve in an arc back to the inside again,
And see it as the circular path of life,
Demonstrated by the slipperyness of the dangerous twists and turns,
(which emerge) from the rounded, circular bends;
for life’s path turns little by little –
like a dragon, with his evil wriggling movements-
seemingly creeping forward imperceptibly.
The Labyrinth has a crooked gate through which it is difficult to gain entrance:
As far as you have traveled, hurrying from the outside to the inside,
You will then have to travel through the narrow, winding, misleading paths
(from) the inside to the depths of the egress;
day by day it bewitches you with it’s paths to the outside,
and, mockingly, it plays its game with you
with the turns of (vain) hope,
like a dream with it’s blank faces,
intil Cronos, the prime mover, slowly vanishes
and, alas, that dark worker, Death, receives you,
who dashes your chances of ever reaching the egress.
When you hear of a labyrinth, stranger,
That Solomon molded from his intellect and built with stones set in an arc:
Copy it’s structure, shape and diversity
True to scale, using strokes of dark ink,
And, in so doing, observe the innumerable turns,
Namely the perfectly round paths that lead from the inside to the outside
And then curve in an arc back to the inside again,
And see it as the circular path of life,
Demonstrated by the slipperyness of the dangerous twists and turns,
(which emerge) from the rounded, circular bends;
for life’s path turns little by little –
like a dragon, with his evil wriggling movements-
seemingly creeping forward imperceptibly.
The Labyrinth has a crooked gate through which it is difficult to gain entrance:
As far as you have traveled, hurrying from the outside to the inside,
You will then have to travel through the narrow, winding, misleading paths
(from) the inside to the depths of the egress;
day by day it bewitches you with it’s paths to the outside,
and, mockingly, it plays its game with you
with the turns of (vain) hope,
like a dream with it’s blank faces,
intil Cronos, the prime mover, slowly vanishes
and, alas, that dark worker, Death, receives you,
who dashes your chances of ever reaching the egress.
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| Photo © Anne Senstad |
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Channel 8 News Interview with Anne Senstad and Sugarcane farmer Ronnie Waguespack Jr
A 2010 Louisiana Channel 8 News interview with
Sugarcane Farmer Ronnie Waguespack Jr and artist
Anne Senstad on the making of The Sugarcane
Labyrinth and the politics of bio fuel, agriculture,
economy and sustainability.
Sugarcane Farmer Ronnie Waguespack Jr and artist
Anne Senstad on the making of The Sugarcane
Labyrinth and the politics of bio fuel, agriculture,
economy and sustainability.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Excerpt from The Sugarcane Labyrinth
The Sugarcane Labyrinth by Anne Senstad
(In French and English)
11.22 min loop
(In French and English)
11.22 min loop
A short film about the making and experience of The Sugarcane Labyrinth located in Theriot, Louisiana. The film shows the experience of the walk through, getting lost in the labyrinth and the physicality of the volume of the labyrinth through the use of split screen. The added extractions of poetry and literature bring the viewer into a labyrinthian experience of the mind.
As a film about land practice and the phenomenology of space and land, Senstad has included the process of construction and time, as agriculture here represents nature and labor of the land through working with farmers and farmhand through the seasons. By using pink ribbons to construct the architectural formation of the labyrinth, the ribbons represent both mythology and the artists touch. The film is a portrait of The Sugarcane Labyrinth from construction to final completion with the framework being the experience of the piece itself.
The music of J G Thirlwell, known from Foetus, Manorexia, Steroid Maximus and Venture Bros, was composed especially for the film, and brings the viewer through the labyrinthian process with beautiful, hypnotic and haunting soundscapes.
As a film about land practice and the phenomenology of space and land, Senstad has included the process of construction and time, as agriculture here represents nature and labor of the land through working with farmers and farmhand through the seasons. By using pink ribbons to construct the architectural formation of the labyrinth, the ribbons represent both mythology and the artists touch. The film is a portrait of The Sugarcane Labyrinth from construction to final completion with the framework being the experience of the piece itself.
The music of J G Thirlwell, known from Foetus, Manorexia, Steroid Maximus and Venture Bros, was composed especially for the film, and brings the viewer through the labyrinthian process with beautiful, hypnotic and haunting soundscapes.
The Sugarcane Labyrinth in Theriot, LA was supported by The Royal Norwegian Consulate General Houston, Kleentek Theriot and Triple K & M Farms Inc,
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