[Co-editor at Small Night Projects] Following time as a researcher and PhD candidate in psychology and movement science, Christopher Steenson (b.1992) began his artistic practice in 2017. With a practice that spans sound, lens-based media, text and digital systems, Steenson’s work seeks to bridge historical and speculative narratives as a method of interrogating the politics of time, environment and more-than-human-relations. His work manifests in various guises, ranging from site-specific and public sound works, to gallery installations, performances, and publications.

Steenson’s work has been presented at solo exhibitions, including: ‘Breath Variations’, Flat Time House, London, United Kingdom (2023); ‘Soft Rains Will Come’, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (2022); TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them (2022). He participated in several group exhibitions, including ‘mother tongue’, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2024); ‘Apocalypse Anxieties’, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland, ‘inching towards’, Freelands Foundation, London, United Kingdom (2024); ‘Penumbra’, LAVA, Mexico City, Mexico (2024); ‘Periodical Review 12: Practical Magic’, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2022); Sonorities Sound Biennale, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2022); ‘Urgencies’, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2021).

In 2020, Steenson created On Chorus, a national public sound artwork that broadcast birdsong across Ireland by using Irish Rail/Iarnród Éireann’s network PA systems. This work now exists as an artist LP and won a 2021 Business to Arts Award. Steenson has participated on several residencies including: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA (2023); Flat Time House, London, United Kingdom (2023); Interface, Connemara, Ireland (2022); Cow House Studios, Wexford, Ireland (2022); Sounding Paths, Syros, Greece (2019). He was part of the fourth and final cohort participating in the PS² Freelands Artist Programme (2022–2023). He lives and works between the north and south of Ireland.