Fine Arts Lecture Series – Caitlin Berrigan: Incantations of Inhuman Language

Incantations of Inhuman Language

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. Her recent artistic research into geological animacies in the climate crisis follows how minerals, toxins, and elemental media are transformed and mobilized by data capitalism and inhuman intimacies.

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, 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 published three artist books with Distanz, Broken Dimanche Press, and Autograph, and has written for e-flux, Georgia, MARCH, Duke University Press, and Springer. 
Her work has been awarded by Creative Capital, Skowhegan, Humboldt Foundation, Graham Foundation, and Schloss Solitude. Berrigan leads an artistic research grant at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and has held full-time and visiting teaching positions at NYU Tisch, Caltech, Bard College Berlin and Harvard. She earned a PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, a master’s from MIT’s program for Art, Culture and Technology and a B.A. from Hampshire College.