“In my mind, a potent image of my late father involves a computer. He’s staring at the blue-white glow of his CRT monitor, sitting in his wheelchair, turned away from me. The visual memory eclipses his face. In an uncanny parallel, I look at a screen whenever I want to remind myself of his features. In both circumstances, a digital display facilitates remembering.”
Christina Battle
Christina Battle is an artist and writer based in Edmonton, and is BlackFlash Expanded’s Online Editor.
As part of Expanded’s ‘How to Guide’ Series, Online Editor Christina Battle shares strategies for considering the environment when working online.
A response to the Body and Water exhibition at Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre
An editorial for BlackFlash Expanded (part one).
Christina Battle December 2021/January 2022
BlackFlash magazine is thrilled to be welcoming Christina Battle as our new Online Editor.
Moving into a new house or apartment is typically welcomed like a new beginning: inviting the opportunity to restart a domestic life, new homes can temporarily obscure unhappy pasts and cushion against uncertain futures. Yet as the architectures pictured by Kristie MacDonald and Christina Battle at Gallery 44 indicate, a well-organized home can never fully protect us from the threats of the outside world, be they forces of nature or politics (or oftentimes both). Shown at the Toronto gallery this past January, MacDonald’s Mechanisms for Correcting the Past, 2013, and Battle’s dearfield, colorado, 2012, each challenge the function of the photograph as a straightforward archival document, instead proposing alternatives for how the medium can engage with histories obscured from view.