Artists in Conversation | Michelle Campos Castillo, Zachary Ayotte & Christina Battle
Live-Streamed Event
Join artists Michelle Campos Castillo, Zachary Ayotte and Christina Battle for a live-streamed conversation in conjunction with Campos Castillo’s exhibition Terremoto, on Saturday, August 29 at 1pm.
Terremoto is a comic arts project by Campos Castillo based on the Campos-Castillo family’s shared memory of the catastrophe and trauma of the earthquake that hit San Salvador (El Salvador) in 1986. The exhibition is comprised of painted murals on the gallery walls as well as recorded interviews that Michelle conducted with members of her family. Artist and writer Zachary Ayotte contributed the opening text for the exhibition.
Michelle Campos Castillo is a Salvadoran visual artist living in Edmonton. She has been the recipient of several public art commissions from the City of Edmonton, including Platanos, a set of three sculptures on permanent display at Belvedere Transit Centre, and is currently producing artwork for the LRT Valley Line in the west end of the city. A frequent collaborator with artist Vivek Shraya, she has provided art direction and photography for Vivek's Trisha photo series, graphic design for her Lambda Literary Award-nominated book, What I Love About Being QUEER, and VS Books, the artist's imprint with Arsenal Pulp Press.
Zachary Ayotte is a Canadian artist, photographer and writer. He was born in Yellowknife, NT and raised in Edmonton, AB. He currently lives in Edmonton.
Christina Battle (Edmonton) has exhibited internationally in festivals and galleries as both artist and curator; most recently at: Latitude 53 (Edmonton), The John & Maggie Mitchell Gallery (Edmonton), Harbourfront Centre with SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE (Toronto), Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver); Forum Expanded at the Berlinale (Berlin), Blackwood Gallery (Mississagua), and Trinity Square Video (Toronto). Her work and research are situated around her recently completed PhD dissertation: Disaster as a Framework for Social Change: Searching for new patterns across plant ecology and online networks (2020).
