Christian Kerrigan

Still Life, installation at the London School of Economics

2011-07-10T17:07:00.000-07:00

V&A residency exhibition reviewed on Furtherfield

2010-09-30T07:22:00.000-07:00

Thirty Six Views of Edo, exhibition at the V&A, 2010

2010-05-23T12:47:00.000-07:00

Encased Nature, Installation at the V&A museum

2010-05-22T11:11:00.001-07:00

Chemical Collage, collection no.1

2010-04-01T10:00:00.000-07:00

Cargo for the Slipway, collection no.3

2010-04-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

Cargo for the Slipway, collection no.1

2010-04-01T09:49:00.001-07:00

Cargo for the Slipway, collection no.2

2010-04-01T09:46:00.000-07:00

The Amber Pool, Installation in the Henry Cole Wing staircase at the V&A.

2010-04-01T09:45:00.000-07:00

The Amber Pool, Installation in the Henry Cole Wing staircase at the V&A.

2010-04-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

The Amber Pool, Installation in the Henry Cole Wing staircase at the V&A.

2010-04-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

2010-01-27T14:54:00.000-08:00

V&A Artist in residence work in progress.

2010-01-22T09:34:00.000-08:00

2010-01-22T09:31:00.000-08:00

2009-12-03T15:00:00.001-08:00

2009-08-02T19:41:00.001-07:00

2009-08-02T19:39:00.001-07:00

2008-05-14T11:22:00.000-07:00

2008-05-14T11:08:00.000-07:00

‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, relates the events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage through a high storm on the sea. A tale of man’s relationship to mortality, this project choreographs a journey of an emerging system over 200 years to a world where nature and society are seamlessly intertwined. The system develops through an ageing forest, adapts and alters the natural growth of trees to create a ship within the body of the forest. As the ship evolves it slowly alters its geometries by artificial sculpting through elaborate Bonsai art. Slowly growing to completion, the end of the system within the forest is signalled by the Amber Clock, the resin cycles in the trees keeping time. The armatures alter the geometries of the copse with technologies, which are spliced into the hull of the ship. These armatures of next generation structures to forge the interior of the ships own cargo. As the ships leaves the edge of the forest it reconfigures to take root in the granite landscape as it embeds in a time based carving of its own obelisk.

2008-05-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

2008-05-14T11:02:00.000-07:00

2007-12-13T12:25:00.002-08:00

Growing a Hidden Architecture
This project is concerned with how man’s ability to control his surroundings is intimately linked with his advancing capabilities of using technology. We have reached a point in our evolution where we are now capable of creating design criteria to manipulate natural growth and development. This project explores the possibilities of a symbiotic relationship between two different systems of organization, technology and nature. The technology is designed to theoretically alter newly planted trees in the last remaining Yew forest- Kingley Vale.

By controlling the manipulation of refined armatures, calibrating devices and designed corsets; the system is capable of controlling the growth of a ship inside the forest. The ship will grow over a period of 200 years and will exist as a hidden architecture inside the trees. The ship growing in the forest is the ship from the ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, a tale of man’s relationship to mortality.

For the evolution to last without human intervention, the artificial system harvests resin from the trees to measure time passing. The hourglass is designed to a volume of two hundred years, as the resin passes from the tree the clock slowly fills. Ultimately the hourglass volume is filled, jamming the clock signally the completion of the system. By creating this architecture within the trees the artificial system itself extends new possibilities into man’s relationship to our ‘Next Nature’.

2007-12-13T12:25:00.001-08:00

2007-12-13T12:23:00.000-08:00

2007-12-13T12:21:00.000-08:00

Gunwale aperture: devices slowly create apertures within the pieces of the ship.

2007-12-13T12:19:00.000-08:00

Lake view: a silhouette of the ships growth over two hundred within the forest at Kingley Vale.

2007-12-13T12:18:00.000-08:00

2007-12-13T12:17:00.000-08:00

2007-12-13T12:16:00.000-08:00

2007-12-13T12:06:00.000-08:00

Rudder Section: as the mechanistic piece of the corset shapes the>> tree, it later becomes embedded into the tree to become part of the navigation piece of the ships rudder.

2007-12-13T12:02:00.000-08:00

Amber Clock: The hourglass is deigned to a volume of two hundred years

2007-12-13T11:54:00.000-08:00

The forests ear: the navigation of the ships emergence is controlled through accoustic feed back loops

2007-12-13T11:45:00.000-08:00

Amber Forest: the manipulation of the trees after one hundred years creates the shape of the ship within the forest.