TULCA 2022 Artist Talk Series | Pálás Cinema

Artist Talk: Christopher Steenson
Introduced by Gavin Murphy

Friday 04 Nov 2022
10am - 11.30am
Pálás Cinema

Tickets: book here

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them curated by Clare Gormley.

TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with ATU Centre for Creative Arts and Media to bring to you our popular curator’s talk along with talks by three of this year’s exhibiting artists every Friday for 4 weeks starting 28 October 2022. This year’s talks series will be hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Artist: Christopher Steenson
Christopher Steenson is an artist based 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.

For TULCA 2022, Steenson presents Soft Rains Will Come (2022) in 126 Gallery. Operating as a live radio broadcast, Soft Rains Will Come (2022) transmits itself as an ‘imaginary landscape’ within the gallery. Amongst the static and squawks of communication, an unknown voice broadcasts itself to twelve transistor radios. This acousmêtre is an eavesdropper and an oracle, outlining a speculative future of the earth, as it transforms under an erratically changing climate. Like the weather itself, this sound work exists as an entropic system, constructing and recombining itself endlessly. Past and present fragments of sound are perpetually rearranged, to make predictions of an anxious future.

Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Lower Merchant's Road, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
Parking: pay and display

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The World Was All Before Them
Curated by Clare Gormley
4 - 20 November 2022
Galway, Ireland

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