CA Ryan

My name is CA Ryan. It's not my real name. It's an anagram of canary. The artistic identity of CA Ryan is intended to be a sacrificial one – the canary in the mine, registering the impending threat. This identity is about survival, or living differently in the world. We will all find our identities have to change. CA Ryan began in January 2020 as a new phase of practice, to register a growing sense of vulnerability and grief. CA Ryan is also a critical position from which to think and act.

This is the vision of CA Ryan: The climate emergency is real and it is happening now. Its outcomes are brutal and difficult to predict. It threatens all life, not only human life. Mass extinctions are already underway. The crisis manifests itself in various deadly forms: rising seas, floods, cyclones, droughts and fires. Human-made structures look fragile in the face of such forces. 

The intention from this point is to expand the practice to develop a way of working that combines artistic and activist approaches.