2022–2023
Christina Battle (Canada) is an artist, curator, filmmaker, writer, and organizer. She received a BSc from the University of Alberta with specialization in Environmental Biology (1996), an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2005), and a PhD in Art and Visual Culture from the University of Western Ontario (2019). Battle’s practice examines the concept of disaster: its complexity and the intricacies that are entwined within it. Her film and media artworks have been exhibited at venues internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, EXiS Festival, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, International House Philadelphia, Berlinale, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Harbourfront Centre. She was a contributing editor to INCITE Journal of Experimental Media and a member of the collectives Mice Magazine, re:assemblage, and Nothing To See Here. She is currently the online editor for BlackFlash Magazine, which is dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and divergent artistic practices. Battle lives and works in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), located within the Aspen parkland, a transitional biome where prairie and boreal forest meet.
Multidimensional by definition, disaster is seen as a series of intersecting processes including social, environmental, cultural, political, economic, and technological, which are implicated not only in how disaster is caused but also in how it manifests, is responded to, and overcome. Through this research I consider the ways in which disaster, as both subject and framework, might be utilized as a tactic for social change and as a tool for reimagining how dominant systems might radically shift. – Christina Battle
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