Solo-Presentation, 28.10.2022 - 30.10.2022

For the sixth edition of the Archive Series, Looiersgracht 60 presented ‘The Chase’, a unique installation by visual artist and artistic researcher Miriam Sentler. Accompanying the installation was a public program with Sentler’s frequent collaborators, environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale and composer Drake Stoughton. Sentler and Hale performed Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt followed by a panel discussion between Sentler and Stoughton, moderated by Alicja Melzacka, curator of Jester, an exhibition space established on a former coal mine in Genk, BE.

‘The Chase’ brings together three of Sentler’s projects surrounding artistic methods of archiving endangered species in landscapes exploited for fossil fuel extraction. Considering the act of the ‘chase’, Sentler does not strive to capture her subjects, but rather focuses on the reach towards engagement with fleeting sources. Methods such as translating the sounds of endangered birds into sheet music or following the legendary basking shark as dual industrial resource and sea-monster are presented in the installation as methods to engage with the changes of precarious landscapes. Sentler explores these on-going research projects through the performance, discussion and installations and questions their methodologies as (im)possible archival instruments of the chase.

Artistic Works: Collection Miriam Sentler i.c.w. Drake Stoughton and Sadie Hale
Artistic Direction: Nadine Snijders and Soraya Notoadikusumo (L60)
Production: Miriam Sentler i.c.w. team Looiersgracht 60
Hosting: Mariel Williams
Graphic Design: LNDW Studio
Photography: LNDW Studio 
Communication: Mariel Williams
Typography: LNDW Studio 
Thanks to: the L60 team and my studio colleagues