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Christopher Steenson
Soft Rains Will Come
The Long Grass
Where Does the Body End?
Let it Run All Over Me
Breath Variations
Almanac for a Walled City
On Chorus
I am Sitting in a Vault
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Soft Rains Will Come
The Long Grass
Where Does the Body End?
Let it Run All Over Me
Breath Variations
Almanac for a Walled City
On Chorus
I am Sitting in a Vault
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On Chorus (Artist LP)
Soft Rains Will Come
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Soft Rains Will Come (2022)
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)
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.

Where Does the Body End? (2025)
Where Does the Body End? (2025)

Air quality sensor, singing bowls, chrome-plated pedestal fan, wood, carved stone, 3D-printed components, five-channel sound, custom software, Raspberry Pi microcomputers, Arduino microcontrollers, motors, circuitry, cabling.

Installation view, ‘The Air We Share’, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland (16 August – 28 September 2025).

Photograph by Tom Flanagan. 

A pre-history, perhaps (2022)
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.

The Long Grass (2022–2024)
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.

Meadow Demonstration 1 (2025)
Meadow Demonstration 1 (2025)

Inkjet print from 35mm positive.

Installation view, ‘They haven’t gone away you know’, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, Ireland (25 September – 22 November 2025).

'Breath Variations' (2023)
'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)
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)
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)
'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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
On Chorus (2020)

Bird Spikes, 2020, 35mm photograph

On Chorus (2020)
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)

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

Photograph by John D’Arcy.

Christopher Steenson