What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It's You Always You

This assemblage series was presented by Northwest Film Forum as a public art performance event.  An interactive installation element consisting of theater, dance, dance film, and sculpture preceded a dance and theater performance in a proscenium theater.  Premiered in July 2018.  Photo credits: Bret Doss.

Unfixed Arias 

A dance installation work with strong visual arts elements of painting, sculpture, and drawing, as well as the use of poetry.  Previewed in May 2014, premiered in April 2015.  Co-choreographed with Natascha Greenwalt.  Photo credit: Bret Doss.
Installations for Unfixed Arias
Choreography from Unfixed Arias

An apology for Zeno and the Alchemical Pattern

A two-month residency resulted in a large-scale mural, several installation works, and a performance with a "living painting" made on the surface of a milk pool. 2011. Photo credits: Ernie Sapiro, Kris Martin.

Makes the [something] sick

A collaboration with composer/musician Noel Kennon, premiered at Yaw Theater's New Year Lift Off, January 2019.

The gentle abduction of Esther Williams

Originally premiered by Coriolis Dance in Co-LAB 5, 2013. In collaboration with Jackie An. Photo credits: Bret Doss.

Private Practice

Private Practice 7 (or try to hover).  Original premiere at NW New Works Festival, On the Boards, 2011. 
A series of performances and videos that explored the roleplay inherent between caretakers and their loved ones as influenced by the institution of Western medicine.  Vocabulary based on the techniques nurse practitioners use to move and check on patients.Photo credits: Ernie Sapiro
Private Practice 4, 2010.

Tasks

Simple and spontaneous process-based work documented in video or photographs. 2010-present.  This series follows these rules: 
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1) object must have the sensibility of a wound
2) artist cannot have complete control the aesthetic destination of object
3) object must transfer the psychological to the physiological
4) process must be simple to produce and must leave something tangible behind
5) must formalize a process of creating meaning from that which is malignant
Task 04.3: Pleasure ful/less, 2014.
Task 14: This is home, 2020.  A crowd-sourced collage film created with grant support from OneReel's Art Saves Me grant program.  Film footage submitted by 18 contributors, editing, voiceover, and scatterplot chart by Christin Call.

Limitations

Collage, projection, and performative movement combine as an exploration of the boundaries of identity and circumstance.
Limitations 5, 2014.
Limitations 6, 2015.  Choeography by Natascha Greenwalt.
​Limitations 7, 2015.  Choreography and text by Christin Call with movement contribution from Mariko Nagashima.
Limitations 9/Task 13, 2017.  
Limitations 10, 2019. Selected for Monomyth I, a curated evening by Tuya Vale Collective in Seatle, WA.  Rigging, voice, text, and movement by Christin Call
Limitations 11, 2019.  A protest performance enacted with Danilea McKea for women's reproductive rights.  Cal Anderson Park and Capitol Hill Neighborhood, Seattle, WA.
Limitations 12, 2019.  A solo durational performance at Yaw Theater, Seattle, WA.  Film and performance by Christin Call with audience participation.  Paper, charcoal, flowers, and video installation.  A piece that explores the artist's roots as a "prairie girl" growing up in the mythos of the unsettled West and her discovery of a suicide note written in her journal at 10-years-old.  Audiences were given paper and pens and asked to respond to the question, "Where is your wilderness?"  
Limitations 13, 2019.  A performance with Noel Kennon at Yaw Theater.  Flowers, train, and movement by Christin Call.  An exploration of femininity.  
Limitations 14 / Unison tracings, 2020.  An improvised performance with Warren Woo, Noel Kennon, and Joey Largent at The Chapel at Good Shepard Center, Seattle, WA. Costumes and arm tethers courtesy of Coriolis Dance.  An exploration of soundmaking with physical limitations of tethering.
Limitations 12.5, 2020.  Durational performance utilizing artifact drawing from Limitations 12.  An exploration of incorporating past work with new formal elements.  Performed in isolation at The Shed, Seattle, WA.  Existing charcoal drawing on paper, acrylic paint, movement.  
Limitations 15, 2020.  Installation performance for film.  Created in collaboration with Natascha Greenwalt and Madeleine Gregor at The Shed.

Chaotic Cartographers

An ongoing collaborative project with Lydia Schwartz and Vanessa DeWolf exploring the act of mapmaking through writing, sculpture, performance, and interactive experiences.  2013-present.
The Guild of Chaotic Cartographers at Tukwila Revealed, 2015.
Valentine for a Chainlink Fence, 2014.
Cartographers Awaken at NEPO5k, 2013.