Currently working in New York City, Samuel Christian is an interdisciplinary artist and writer engaged in contemporary art practice, continental philosophy, and post-structuralist theory. Christian’s visual practice takes up an investigation into the specific relations occurring in a given process and the material productions of that network. They ‘play’ within a web of installation, sculpture, found-objects, drawing, and video performance; emphasizing how peculiar networks of materials, objects, bodies, and techniques serve as a vehicle for new aesthetic encounters and contexts to emerge. Whether this takes form in visually explicit or redundant methods of connection-making (such as tape, stapes, steel brackets, etc.), construing cultural/disciplinary building techniques (such as folk, institutional, and industrial construction methods), or emphasizing a material’s particularities in its relation to others; Christian’s work is attentive to the relationship of a creative practice to historical and imminent processes and its ability to produce affective networks out of the investigation of process itself. In this sense, Christian’s practice, at each level of approach, creation, and spectation, is the engagement and cultivation of a particular network while simultaneously producing the conditions for anew. Christian recently exhibited, Bullpen, 2024, in collaboration with Eamon King at 818 Marcy, New York.

In their writing practice, Christian takes on an investigation into the history of western metaphysics, semiotics, and posthumanism and their creative deployments inside and outside the discipline of philosophy. They are currently writing on the solo and collaborative works of Deleuze and Guattari, particularly in their forthcoming work, Drawing Deployment: Minor Arrangements of Kafka and Cage.