Artist Statement:

Through the diverse range of his practice, cross-disciplinary contemporary artist Christopher Collier aims to create situations, facilitating experiential effects that acknowledge and examine the position of audience as co-author of a work's meaning. Seeking to deterritorialize his practice, Christopher Collier attempts to de-construct the contextual barriers between disciplines, between situation and work, process and product and is interested in infiltrating non-art specific spaces in order to enable potential unexpected relationships between work, audience and location. Working conceptually through installation, lens-based media, sound and language and fascinated by concepts of place, he explores ideas of psychological geography, relational space and liminality.

 Through the appropriation of signs and contexts Christopher Collier is interested in the idea that creative interventions can undermine and disrupt assumed structures, narratives, relationships and hierarchies. His work frequently adopts the position that the artist's primary role must be to foster mistrust in reality, seeking to make work that invites the interruption of mundane experience in order to trigger new methods of perception and momentarily facilitate fresh assessments of a situation.

The works that Collier produces are invariably situation specific and in so much can never be definitively conveyed or recorded. As such the photographic records that convey each work are often deliberately over-produced to appear overtly aesthetic, almost hyperreal, drawing attention to their status as iterations in a Brechtian fashion. The attempt is made to show that these images are not the work but iterations of it presented within an inescapably commodified language of representation.

 
Christopher Collier 2010.