Christopher Steenson CV (b. 1992)
Public Art
November 2020 On Chorus. In collaboration with Iarnród Éireann, BirdWatch Ireland and Fallow Media
Solo Exhibitions
April 2020 Sonorities Festival 2020, A Wireless Chorus, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Postponded due to Covid-19)
Group Exhibitions / Performances
March 2021 Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, Urgencies, Derry, Northern Ireland (curated by Locky Morris and Catherine Hemelryk)
April 2020 Sonorities Festival 2020, The Listening Room, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Postponded due to Covid-19)
November 2019 Pallas Projects/Studios, Small Night Zine: Arrangements, Dublin, Ireland
September 2019 Catalyst Arts, Catalyst Audio Tracks 002, Belfast, Northern Ireland
July 2019 Old Jesuit Monastery, Sounding Paths 2019 Residency Showcase, Syros Island, Greece
June 2019 Soundscape Park Project, Umbrella in the Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland (with Una Lee, John D’Arcy, Richard Davis, Alex Lucas, Aidan Deery, Hadi Bastani, et al.)
May 2019 NCAD Gallery, The Office for Common Sound, Dublin, Ireland (with Sven Anderson, Colm Keady-Tabbal, Mateja Šmic, et al.)
March 2019 Dundalk Institute of Technology, mixtape #IWD, Dundalk, Ireland (with Chris Watson, Francisco Lopez, Barbara Ellison, Silvia Veravova, et al.)
August 2018 Sonic Arts Research Centre, Catalyst Audio Tracks 001, Belfast, Northern Ireland
August 2018 St Martin’s Church, Spectres of Place (as part of Framewerk Sleepover), Belfast, Northern Ireland
June 2018 Framewerk Art Gallery, The Art of Cycling, Belfast, Northern Ireland
March 2018 Imagine Festival of Politics and Ideas, Talbot St (soundscape contribution to The Public Pulpit by Ben Weir), Belfast, Northern Ireland
February 2018 The Art Department, Fjord Melt/Cold Hands, Belfast, Northern Ireland
December 2017 Club Curious, Digital Tropical, Belfast, Northern Ireland
December 2017 Sonic Arts Research Centre, In the Stairwell, Belfast, Northern Ireland
August 2017 EastSide Arts Festival, I am Sitting in a Vault (in The Old Ulster Bank Building on the Newtownards Road), Belfast, Northern Ireland
Radio Broadcasts
8 December 2020 On Chorus (Connolly Station), ddr (Dublin Digital Radio)
29 November 2020 On Chorus (Connolly Station), Radiophrenia 2020, CCA Glasgow (Online & at 87.9FM in the Glasgow area)
Curation
November 2019 RHA School Dublin, M*A*S*H (Many Artists Showing Hyper-Reality). Co-Curated with Fál Linntreog. Screening event featuring: Eoghan Ryan, Beth Collar, Callumn Hill, Ann Maria Healy, Barbera Knezevic, Charlotte Develter, Mathilda Ganacia, et al.)
Funding & Awards
2021 Highly Commended Proposal for Wren Radio, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art Open Call
2021 Business to Arts Awards 2020 (Shortlisted – Winner Announced April 2021)
2021 Creative Work Bursary, Kerry Arts Office, Kerry County Council
2020 Professional Development Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2020 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2020 Support for the Individual Artist Programme: General Art Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2020 Covid-19 Crisis Response Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2019 Support for the Individual Artist Programme: General Art Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2019 Support for the Individual Artist Programme: Travel Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2019 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland
Residencies
2022 Inagh Interface, Connemara, Ireland (forthcoming, dates TBC)
2019 Sounding Paths 2019, Ano Syros, Syros Island, Greece (5 to 15 July)
Press Coverage
Ηχητικές συνθέσεις με αναφορά στην Άνω Σύρο (Sound Compositions With Reference to Ano Syros), Κοινή Γνώμη (Public Opinion), 16 July 2019
Live Report: Framewerk Sleepover, The Quietus, 13 August 2018
I am Sitting in a Vault, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 4, September – October 2017
Arts Show Interview about I am Sitting in a Vault, BBC Radio Ulster, 10 August 2017
Memberships
Business to Arts – Arts Affiliate Member. Joined 2021 – Preesent.
BirdWatch Ireland. Joined 2020 – Present.
Umbrella Sound Art Collective. Joined in 2017.
Selected Writing
Hearing Tenses, This Place, March 2020 (catalogue essay for Amanda Coogan’s exhibition at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown)
Acoustic Bleed: Sound Art in Belfast, Paper Visual Art, Volume 11, 2020
Sounding Paths, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 6, November – December 2019
State of the Medium, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 5, September – October 2019
Good Listeners, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 1, January – February 2019
Sounding Out, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 3, July – August 2018
(Tree) House Music, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 1, January – February 2018
Bringing Sounds into Use: Thinking of Sounds as Materials and a Sketch of Auditory Affordances, The Open Psychology Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2015
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast (Co-Editor and Contributor)
Education
2016 Queen’s University Belfast, Psychology PhD candidate
Thesis Title: Sounds Like We’re Moving: Using Auditory Information to Guide Human Movement.
2010 Queen’s University Belfast, Psychology BSc
Thesis Title: Communication of Emotion Through Musical Improvisation.
Additional Training
2021 Cow House Studios, Film Photography Development and Printing (with Frank Abruzzese) (forthcoming)
2019 Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Ways of Hearing: Spatial Audio (with Moritz Fehr), 2 – 3 March, Dublin, Ireland
2017 A4 Sounds, Creative Technology for Artists and Makers, 19 November – 10 December, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Visual Artists Ireland, Writing About your Work with Sue Rainsford, 15 November, Dublin, Ireland
