Christopher Steenson

Soft Rains Will Come (2022)

Installation View, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland.

Indeterminate sound artwork for twelve Cold War-era radios placed on stilts (to protect against eventual submersion). Infinite duration (or until the electricity stops).

Bespoke algorithmic audio system, live shortwave radio signals, field recordings, voiceover and collected shortwave radio recordings. Broadcast via four radio transmitters. Dimensions variable.

Photograph by Ros Kavanagh.

The Long Grass (2022–2024)

35mm slides, slide projector, vintage portable projection screen and projection table, timing system, amplifier, horn speaker, carved field stone, cabling. Dimensions variable.

Installation view, The MAC, Belfast (26 April – 21 July 2024).

Photograph by Simon Mills.

The Long Grass (2022–2024)

35mm slides, slide projector, vintage portable projection screen and projection table, timing system, amplifier, horn speaker, carved field stone, cabling. Dimensions variable.

Installation view, The MAC, Belfast (26 April – 21 July 2024).

Photograph by Simon Mills.

A pre-history, perhaps (2022)

Hand-printed c-type print on archival photo paper, edition of 1 + 1 AP, 50.8 x 70 cm.

Photograph by Frank Abruzzese.

'Breath Variations' (2023)

untitled (thesamethesamethesame), 2023, HD video (transferred to SD), broadcast monitor, 6-channel surround sound. Installation View, Flat Time House, London (12–14 May 2023).

Photograph by Ariana Martin.

The Long Grass (2022–2024)

35mm slides, slide projector, vintage portable projection screen and projection table, timing system, amplifier, horn speaker, carved field stone, cabling. Dimensions variable.

Installation view, The MAC, Belfast (26 April – 21 July 2024).

Photograph by Simon Mills.

Let it run all over me (2023)

Installation view, Lagan Weir Underwater Tunnel, 25 March 2023.

4-channel site-specific sound work with horse skull, theatre lighting, field recordings and resonances.

Photograph by Simon Mills.

'Breath Variations' (2023)

Big Breather (1972) research material from the John Latham Archive, installation view, Flat Time House, London (12–14 May 2023).

Photograph by Ariana Martin.

Department of Dreamtime (2022)

Installation view, CCA Derry~Londonderry Project Space.

Freephone number, intermittent sound broadcast, video, window tint and advertising signage.

Photograph by Paola Bernardelli.

The Long Grass (2022–2024)

35mm slides, slide projector, vintage portable projection screen and projection table, timing system, amplifier, horn speaker, cabling. Dimensions variable.

Installation view, Freelands Foundation, London.

Photograph by Andy Stagg.

I never thought something like that could happen here (2022)

Hand-printed c-type print on archival photo paper, edition of 1 + 1 AP, 30.5 x 40.6 cm

Connemara Landscape (Wind Study) (2022)

Sonorities sound biennale, Belfast, Northern Ireland (6–10 April 2022).

Ambisonic 4-channel sound installation. Installation view.

Photograph: Christopher Steenson

On Chorus (2020)

Bird Spikes, 2020, 35mm photograph

Urgencies (2021)

Electricity (Annascaul) (2019), 35mm negative scanned to digital.

Clouds (Venice floods) (2019), 35mm negative scanned to digital.

Installation view, Cathedral School, London Street, Derry, as part of CCA Derry~Londonderry’s ‘Urgencies’ group biennale exhibition (30 March –22 May 2021). Photograph by Paola Bernardelli.

On Chorus (2020)

Irish Rail Train Station PA System used for On Chorus broadcasts. Photograph by Louis Haugh

I am Sitting in a Vault (2017)

I am Sitting in a Vault (2017) performance at the Old Ulster Bank, Belfast, EastSide Arts Festival.

Photograph by John D’Arcy.