COImag

COI is a collaborative project by Zachary Ayotte and Christina Battle started in Edmonton in 2025.  

Zachary Ayotte is a writer and visual artist living in Treaty 6, Edmonton, AB. His work explores themes of care and maintenance and how they are juxtaposed by the temptation toward consumption, accumulation, and control. He has published multiple book projects, including I Wish U Were Here, Notes on Digging A Hole, and At the Same Time. His writing has appeared in publications like The Walrus, Culture Study, and Canadian Art.  

Christina Battle is an artist, curator, and writer based in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), within the Aspen Parkland: the transition zone where prairie and forest meet. Her practice focuses on thinking deeply about the concept of disaster: its complexity, and the intricacies entwined within it. She looks to disaster as a series of intersecting processes including social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic, which are implicated not only in how disaster is caused but also in how it manifests, is responded to, and overcome. Battle’s practice prioritizes collaboration, experimentation, and failure; she has exhibited internationally in festivals and galleries as both artist and curator.