Christina Battle
With degrees in both environmental biology and visual arts, filmmaker Christina Battle has been an active
member of the Toronto experimental film community since 1996.
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when the wind shifted, 2006
Projection installation
[ selected photographs ] [ video ]
Ontario Power Generation, 700 University Avenue (at College Street)
[In association with Ontario Power Generation].
Interacting directly with
the urban environment, multiple projections imagined the moment a small corner of the city is overtaken
by the natural world. Inspired by Toronto's now unforgettable aphid infestation of August 2001, a series
of outdoor projections created moments of a shift in the balance between natural and urban environments.
Situated in a neighbourhood currently undergoing economic growth and expansion, Battle's presentation
of an encroaching natural world reminds that its power is as transformative as that of urban development.
As noted by Henriette Huldisch in the 2006 Whitney Biennial Catalogue, "Christina Battle takes
a physical, painterly approach to her medium: shooting on 16mm film stock, she processes the works by
hand using custom-made chemicals and subsequently continues to alter the developed film by colour toning,
painting, or dunking it in solution. Interested in evoking a charged emotional register, she treats the
celluloid strip as though applying layers of paint to canvas until the texture and surface of the original
photographic imagery are profoundly transformed by the traces of her manual manipulations."
YOU ARE HERE [audio project by Lewis Kaye]
For the audio file for this site, please right-click the link below
and select "save target as (pc) /
download linked file (mac)".
OPG Building, 700 University Ave (4.7
MB)
You Are Here instructions
1) Download each track to your personal computer
and add them to your favoured MP3 player software (e.g. iTunes, WinAmp, etc.) library.
2) Create a playlist specifically for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche,
and download this playlist to your portable MP3 player.
***Please note that while you can play the tracks on a normal stereo speaker system,
You Are Here is a binaural audio project specifically designed for personal stereos.
For full effect, each track should be listened to with headphones.
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