"Home is where the heart is" (5:30 mins. looped, 3-channel synched video installation.) Video still documenting 3-screen video installation A video portrait of Dario Os.
Christopher Steadman resides and works in Berlin, London and New York.
His multiple-channel synchronized video pieces have been exhibited widely, including venues throughout Europe, America and the Russian Federation. Upcoming Steadman's work will be exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2012 his work was presented in the Digital Media Arts Forum at St. Petersburg Center of Film and Television and also at the Pro&Contra International Symposium of Media Culture, Krasnoyarsk, with support from the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. Other exhibitions included the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Kirov, funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Vyatka Art Museum of V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov and a video festival at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for which he received the Jurors' Award. Earlier last year his work was selected for Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art's Annual Show curated by Gary Hill. Also in 2012, his works were chosen to take part in XIII Media Forum 34th Moscow International Film Festival, the Berliner Liste art fair and two gallery shows in NYC. Steadman has received numerous awards and grants, including a British Academy Arts and Humanities Research Bursary and funding from the Austrian Federal Chancellery, as well as fellowships from many international artists' residencies, including The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and Chateau La Napoule.
Recently Steadman's subject matter is focused on the centrality of memory, and the articulation of memory as a mutating system functioning within a set of larger cultural and environmental systems. The exploration of subjects claims for solitude and social belonging are themes Steadman expresses across a range of practices, including photographic and video installations, and present in works that are structurally concerned with time, space, and duration.
For it is within the context of these elements that the psyche of the solitary individual must make sense of both their own and other's existence. Steadman's interest in the notion of chance and metamorphoses brought about by the weight of memory, allows the artist to communicate a tension between the ephemeral fluidity of the moving images and the physicality of the monitors, heightening a sense of weight by the fixed configuration of the installation.
