Bio

Originally from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), Christina Battle holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Biology from the University of Alberta and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Her film, video and installation works explore themes of history and counter-memory, political mythology and environmental catastrophe. She has exhibited internationally in festivals and galleries including: The Images Festival (Toronto), The London Film Festival (UK), The International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands), YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto), White Box (New York), The Foreman Art Gallery at Bishops University (Sherbrooke, QC), Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2006) and in the Whitney Biennial, Day for Night (New York, 2006).

Works

Explorations of an Unexpected Time Traveler

  • 2013
  • Christina Battle

Explorations of an Unexpected Time Traveler imagines a narrative where a woman from some undisclosed point in the past experiences continual unexplained and uncontrollable shifts in time and space.

Explorations of an Unexpected Time Traveler

on the day it started there wasn’t a cloud in sight

  • 2012
  • Christina Battle

It was about 10 minutes to five o'clock when it descended upon the city.

on the day it started there wasn’t a cloud in sight

when the smog-filled wind began to howl

  • 2012
  • Christina Battle

We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man. [adapted from Orson Welles' adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds (Orson Welles And Mercury Theatre On The Air, Columbia Broadcasting System, 8:00 To 9:00 P.M., Sunday, October 30, 1938)]

when the smog-filled wind began to howl