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A wide shot of a person in a dark jacket and white pants walks up a black volcanic montaintop under a blue sky with patches of snow in the background.
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Caitlin Berrigan

A wide shot of a person in a dark jacket and white pants walks up a black volcanic montaintop under a blue sky with patches of snow in the background.
Work by Caitlin Berrigan: three people in cloud-print clothing stand against a backdrop of dark storm clouds.
Work by Caitlin Berrigan: black-and-white photo of a snail crawling on a rock beside a curled print of billowing clouds.
Work by Caitlin Berrigan: dusk photo of a dark silhouetted hill and trees with a glowing red-orange eruption of smoke and flame against blue clouds.
Work by Caitlin Berrigan: three black rectangular blocks with glossy rippled tops, one holding a pale, finely patterned relief of mountainous terrain.
Work by Caitlin Berrigan: white sign on a salt flat under a blue sky, painted in red letters reading "The rage was there before the apocalypse arrived."
Work by Caitlin Berrigan: white sheet clipped at the top, with pink lettering about imaginary explosions behind a bursting black scribbled shape.
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Caitlin Berrigan works across performance, video, sculpture, text and public choreographies to engage with the intimate and embodied dimensions of power, politics, and capitalism. Her current body of work, Treatise on Imaginary Explosions, is a cosmology of episodic pseudo-science fiction videos, sculptures, costumes, and drawings. The series follows an affiliation of transfeminist geologists as they operate in communication with the desires of the mineral earth for radical, planetary transformation. Recent projects include Unfinished State, an exhibition and artist's book published by Archive Books addressing post-conflict landscapes, affective geographies, speculative real estate and speculative fiction between Berlin and Beirut.

Caitlin Berrigan has created special commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard Carpenter Center, and the deCordova Museum. Her work has shown at Storefront for Art & Architecture, Hammer Museum, Anthology Film Archives, LACMA, and Goldsmith's London. She has received grants and fellowships from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Humboldt Foundation, Skowhegan, Graham Foundation, PROGRAM for Art & Architecture Berlin, and the Wassaic Project. She holds a Master's in visual art from MIT and a B.A. from Hampshire College. She is a professor of emerging media at NYU Tisch Photography & Imaging and an affiliate of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Technology, Culture and Society.

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