Caitlin Berrigan on
CASSANDRA WITH A FLOOD IN HER MOUTH + IMAGINARY EXPLOSIONS at JOAN
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Caitlin Berrigan works as a visual artist and writer to explore poetics and queer science fiction as world-making practices through instruments and moving image. Her work enfolds the complexity of interrelations across humans and more-than-humans within spatial ecologies, technologies, and systems of capitalism. She has had recent solo exhibitions at JOAN Los Angeles (2023) and Art in General (2019), and has presented her work at the Whitney Museum, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Henry Art Gallery, Harvard Carpenter Center, Poetry Project, Anthology Film Archives, La Casa Encendida, Ashkal Alwan, Goldsmith's among other international venues. Her experimental writings are published by e-flux, Georgia, MARCH, Duke University Press and Broken Dimanche Press. She has received fellowships and residencies from Creative Capital, the Humboldt Foundation, Skowhegan, Graham Foundation, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. Currently a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Berrigan has held full-time and visiting faculty positions at NYU Tisch, Caltech, Bard College Berlin, Harvard, and UMass Boston.
Coco Picard is the author of The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press, 2022), The Strangers Among Us (Astrophil Press, 2017) and The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017). Art criticism and comics have otherwise appeared in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Paris Review, and the Chicago Reader, among others. From 2005-2022, she was the Executive Director of the Green Lantern Press and served as Co-Director of the multidisciplinary art space, Sector 2337, from 2014-2019. Curating exhibitions since 2005, she has presented shows at UIC’s Gallery 400, The Renaissance Society, La Box, ENSA, Vox Populi, and more. She currently coedits the Art after Nature series for University of Minnesota Press and lives with her family in Oxford, England.