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| Uličnická 2025 Read "RKM Interviews Dan Senn" |
Galerie
(see video)
Use your head phones. 4K Video and Stereo Sound by Dan Senn Duration 5:35 (title pronounced "oo-leech-neetz-kah") |
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| Uličnická
Galerie”
(2025), the video portion, was made from a small part of
frontage of an artist-nominated street
gallery across from the National Gallery of Prague. The
sound track is from an improvisation at Gasworks Studio using a plastic bin from the studio refrigerator (see Flat
Works, 2024).
These two were edited independently, many months apart, to
create "standalone" works later "knitted" together. (Read faux interview
"RKM Interviews Dan Senn" for philosophy and process.) The film
site is one of a few remaining undeveloped buildings in Prague today, a
city and country that offered numerous alternative venues and
opportunities to artists post 1989. The site was also selected for the
anonymous walk-bys, these incorporated into the structure
of the work. I
consider this "gallery" a found object. Pouliční Galerie s Interferencí ('26) further develops Uličnická Galerie ('25) by adding flute and drum parts. |
While this work will evoke feelings and interpretations, there is no intended symboliism implanted except fpr that one thing. With few exceptions, it has not interested me to use art to communicate feelings or a political agenda beyond that inferred by chance. You are free to have these reactions though as do I while experiencing them after a work is completed. I have long improvised on found sound and visual objects creating standalone artifactswithout thought of future media combinations. When combined with other standalone works, the challenge is to create an artifact mutually beneficial without the loss of individual spontaneity. DS 090725. |
Dan
Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an
intermedia artist working in music composition and production, kinetic
sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a
professor of music and art in the United States and Australia and
travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation
artist. His doctorate is in Music Composition and Ceramics from the
University of Illinois-Urbana. He lives in Prague where he directs the
Echofluxx media festivals,
and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA. Dan's work moves freely between
expressive extremes and
languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. He is cofounder
of Roulette
Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of
Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media
festivals in Prague. Click banner above to enlarge image. |