Christopher Steenson
Christopher Steenson is an emerging Northern Irish artist working between the north and south of Ireland. With a background in psychology and the sonic environment, his work uses sound, analogue photography, writing and digital media to forge ways of ‘listening to the future’.
Drawing upon the open methodologies of John Cage, and the idea of ‘correspondences’ proposed by anthropologist Tim Ingold, Steenson’s sound-based artworks attempt to operate as a collaborative process, emerging as a field of potentialities between listeners and (speculative) environments. Often taking the form of installations, public interventions and broadcasts, these artworks use the conventions of radio and transmission-based infrastructure to locate audiences within a ‘dreamtime’ – a space in which pasts, presents, and futures are negotiated on a continuum.
These sound works use field recordings and found sound as their primary materials, which are augmented and expanded by their programmatic and systemic modes of presentation, and spatiotemporal context. Another important aspect of Steenson’s practice is the use of writing and analogue photography, which draws upon his experiences in the field, as well incorporating a variety of research materials, ranging from history to philosophy.
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