Christina Battle
suddenly everything changed | 2009 | 1:30min loop | 2 channel video installation | Canada
Looking back, the clues were clear. But by the time the emergency crew took flight it was too late. Things will never be the same.
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Christina Battle has a B.Sc. in Environmental Biology from the University of Alberta and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Through the mediums of film, video, and installation, her work explores themes of history and counter-memory, political mythology and environmental catastrophe. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council, her artworks have screened internationally in festivals and galleries including: The Images Festival (Toronto), The London Film Festival (London, England); The International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands); YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto); White Box (New York); The Foreman Art Gallery at Bishops University (Sherbrooke, QB); The city of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2006 and in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: “Day for Night” (New York). Battle lives and works in Toronto.
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