Halftone, digital stencils, and charcoal, Permaset Aqua Fabric ink on Stonehenge Black, 25 3/4 in x 16 in (diptych), Edition of 30, produced with Print Fellow Keely Snook.
Caitlin Berrigan's "Excerpt from 'Treatise on Imaginary Explosions, Vol. 1" is a page from her 2018 book, Imaginary Explosions, published with Broken Dimanche Press. Imaginary Explosion explores "geological ruptures, the immense scale and deep time of sexual violence, and the reverberation of traumas through bodies across multiple generations of relationships and families. It is an experiment in sequential, narrative poetry. Sparse, material language combines with synthetic landscapes based on the computational radar topography after the 2010 eruption of the volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland, when the deep time of volcanic activity ruptured into the space of global air travel."
Caitlin Berrigan works as a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer to explore poetics and queer science fiction as world-making practices through moving images, sculptural instruments, and expanded new media. Her early works make sensible the relations across viruses, disability, capitalism and contagion. Berrigan’s solo exhibitions at JOAN (Los Angeles) and Art in General (New York) were critically acclaimed in Artforum, and her work has shown internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Berlinale Forum Expanded Exhibition, Haus der Kunst Munich, Mudam Luxembourg, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Harvard Carpenter Center, European Media Arts Festival, and Poetry Project NY among others. She has produced three genre-defying books published by Distanz, Broken Dimanche Press, and Autograph, and her writings are published by e-flux, Georgia, MARCH, Duke University Press. She has been awarded by Creative Capital, Skowhegan, Humboldt Foundation, Graham Foundation, and Akademie Schloss Solitude.
