{"id":10116,"date":"2015-08-20T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skol.ca\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2020-12-01T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:55:56","slug":"christina-battle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skol.ca\/en\/programming\/christina-battle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Battle : The people in this picture are standing on all that remained of a handsome residence"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong>Multi-projection installation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 10th \u2013 October 10th 2015<\/p>\n<p>Le Mois de la Photo \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al presents, in partnership with Le Centre des arts actuels Skol, <em>The people in this picture are standing on all that remained of a handsome residence<\/em> by Christina Battle.<\/p>\n<p><b>Project description<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For its 14th edition Le Mois de la Photo \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al explores <em>The Post-Photographic Condition<\/em>, a theme conceived by Catalan guest curator, Joan Fontcuberta. The post-photographic era is characterized by the massification of images and by their circulation and availability online. Digital technology not only provokes ontological fractures in photography, but also engenders profound changes in its social and functional values. Deployed in 16 exhibition sites, the biennial will feature the works of 29 Canadian and international artists who critically react to this massive presence of images and their unlimited access in our current visual culture.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Luc Nancy states that since Fukushima, the natural disasters of the past have been replaced by a single ongoing civilizational catastrophe. Nowadays, disasters are immediately made into spectacles through media coverage. How, then, can we describe traumatic events without veering into sensationalism? How do we provide information without succumbing to morbid curiosity? Christina Battle has oriented her work toward subjects such as history and counter-memory, political mythology, and the iconography of catastrophes. Her video installation <em>The people in this picture are standing on all that remained of a handsome residence<\/em> (2014) evokes Black Friday in Edmonton, Alberta, on July 31, 1987, when a devastating tornado killed dozens of people and destroyed many homes. Battle downloaded eyewitness photos of the Edmonton disaster and videos of tornadoes published by news outlets on the Internet. She then altered the codes of the images to produce random crashes or glitches and \u201ccollapsed\u201d the results into video files, once again corrupting elements in the codes to force simultaneous reproduction (datamoshing). \u201cMute\u201d images consequently become \u201celoquent,\u201d while fragmentation and repetitive abstraction de-spectacularize the drama. Impervious to the temptations of \u201cdisaster porn,\u201d Battle suggests that every catastrophe sheds a certain amount of light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos: Guy L&#8217;Heureux<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moisdelaphoto.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10484 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mpm_noir-226x240.jpg\" alt=\"mpm_noir-226x240\" width=\"226\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 10th \u2013 October 10th 2015<br \/>\nMulti-projection installation<\/p>\n<p>Le Mois de la Photo \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past","category-programming"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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