Chiasm of Lament II2025

CHIASM OF LAMENT II, is part two of a trilogy and an audio-visual installation work for museum, institutional, site-specific, and gallery environments.

The Chiasm of Lament trilogy 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.

In the video piece, Senstad works with technology as method for deconstructing organic concentric form, light leaks and transitory merges as material. Form and movement are reduced to glitches, sparkles, and flickering, harkening to early space imagery, technology noise, and distributed signal error. The sound is likewise re-composed from small parts extracted from Norwegian electronic sound pioneer and composer Knut Wiggen's (1927-2016) original sound work "Resa", not by AI, but by the artists hand, aesthetics, and vision, marked by editing, layering, manipulating, seeing, and listening as meditation conjoined with the visual material.

The work is a cooperation with the Knut Wiggen archives in Norway.