Assemblage artist
I make dances, films, installations, and art objects
what i do
I am an assemblage artist, working primarily with dance, film, poetry, and installation. I am interested in processes that lend themselves towards complexification and the network of textual associations that can form from initially arbitrary starting points. I feel that there is an immersion of senses created in the setting of artmaking that allows new perceptions and connections to be made. The rich volatility of meaning-making can be chaotic as we move towards and away from companioned experiences. I believe in art as a transformative process that allows the internal landscape to be made physical, so it can be seen, touched, and handled with the safety that the "artifice" of art allows.
"Rich layers of multiple meanings."
-SeattleDances
Bio
Christin Call is a filmmaker, dancemaker, visual artist, and poet living in Seattle, WA. She received her BA in Painting and Art History from Wichita State University in 2004 and has exhibited drawings, paintings, books, photographs, and sculptures in the Midwest and Washington, as well as co-curated exhibitions at the Ulrich Museum of Art and Project Gallery (KS). She was featured as an emerging poet by the Boston Review with a personal foreword by two-time National Book Critic Circle award winner Albert Goldbarth for her series of visual poems that utilized her own invented language, later exhibited at the Ryan James Gallery (Bellevue, WA). She has self-published two collections of poetry, The Mountain? The Mountain in 2008 and cede the crown palaver (failed attempts, false starts, and a sincere apology) in 2014, which was also sold at Open Books in Seattle, WA. Her critical writing has been included in catalogues for the Ulrich Museum of Art as well as arts publications such as Review (Kansas City), F5 (Wichita, KS), SeattleDances, and STANCE: a journal of choreographic culture (Seattle).
As a dancer, she received her classical training in the Cecchetti method from Nancy Hervey and Jill Landrith of Wichita, KS, supplemented by studies at the Harid Conservatory, Kansas City Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet, as well as attending a Gaga Intensives in New York with Co-artistic Director Adi Sawant. She has worked as a principal artist at Metropolitan Ballet of Wichita, Evergreen City Ballet, ARCdance, and Olympic Ballet Theatre. In the contemporary realm she has worked with choreographers such as Jason Ohlberg, Catherine Cabeen, Selfick Ng-Simancas, and Daniel Wilkins, as well as danced in Seattle Opera's production of Pearl Fishers. Christin is currently a Co-artistic Director and dancer of Coriolis Dance where she has created roles in works by Zoe Scofield, Joshua Beamish, Ezra Dickinson, Rainbow Fletcher, and Natascha Greenwalt, among others. Christin’s work try to hover (or Private Practice 7) was performed by Coriolis and presented at On the Board’s NW New Works Festival 2011. She was a recipient of Project: Space Available’s 2011-2012 Artist Residency where she created a performance installation work called An apology for Zeno and the alchemical pattern which included painting, time-based sculpture, crocheted installations of the artist’s hair, and a performance with a milk-filled pool and pigment. In 2012 she and Natascha Greenwalt received Open Flight Studio’s Flight Deck residency to begin their co-choreographed work Insofar as the landscopic field report. A residency at Studio Current, Seattle, WA which resulted in the full-evening work Unfixed Arias, previewed at the Belltown Collective in 2014 and premiered at Open Flight Studio in 2015. In 2016 she was the recipient of the eXit Space Art Residency in order to develop her first short dance film, Voluntary Caesura, which was awarded Best Dance Film by Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival. A residency and partnership with Seattle Demo Project initiated the assemblage series What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You, presented by Northwest Film Forum in July 2018. The development of the work was supported by a Creative Residency from Velocity Dance Center and underwriting by Case van Rij.
As a dancer, she received her classical training in the Cecchetti method from Nancy Hervey and Jill Landrith of Wichita, KS, supplemented by studies at the Harid Conservatory, Kansas City Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet, as well as attending a Gaga Intensives in New York with Co-artistic Director Adi Sawant. She has worked as a principal artist at Metropolitan Ballet of Wichita, Evergreen City Ballet, ARCdance, and Olympic Ballet Theatre. In the contemporary realm she has worked with choreographers such as Jason Ohlberg, Catherine Cabeen, Selfick Ng-Simancas, and Daniel Wilkins, as well as danced in Seattle Opera's production of Pearl Fishers. Christin is currently a Co-artistic Director and dancer of Coriolis Dance where she has created roles in works by Zoe Scofield, Joshua Beamish, Ezra Dickinson, Rainbow Fletcher, and Natascha Greenwalt, among others. Christin’s work try to hover (or Private Practice 7) was performed by Coriolis and presented at On the Board’s NW New Works Festival 2011. She was a recipient of Project: Space Available’s 2011-2012 Artist Residency where she created a performance installation work called An apology for Zeno and the alchemical pattern which included painting, time-based sculpture, crocheted installations of the artist’s hair, and a performance with a milk-filled pool and pigment. In 2012 she and Natascha Greenwalt received Open Flight Studio’s Flight Deck residency to begin their co-choreographed work Insofar as the landscopic field report. A residency at Studio Current, Seattle, WA which resulted in the full-evening work Unfixed Arias, previewed at the Belltown Collective in 2014 and premiered at Open Flight Studio in 2015. In 2016 she was the recipient of the eXit Space Art Residency in order to develop her first short dance film, Voluntary Caesura, which was awarded Best Dance Film by Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival. A residency and partnership with Seattle Demo Project initiated the assemblage series What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You, presented by Northwest Film Forum in July 2018. The development of the work was supported by a Creative Residency from Velocity Dance Center and underwriting by Case van Rij.