Tuesday, 7 April 2015
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Steven Ball has worked in film, video, sound, and installation since the early 1980s. His early practice combined Super 8 film and video, and more recently encompasses digital audio-visual media, in exhibition, online and live, audio-visual and spoken-word performance.
Throughout the 1990s he lived in Melbourne, Australia where he became deeply involved with the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group.
He writes, performs, and releases music, both solo and as a member of The Storm Bugs.
He writes on contemporary and historical moving image related art practice, and occasionally curates screenings and exhibitions.
He is Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
His film and video work is held in the collections of LUX (London), British Film Institute (London), CaixaForum (Spain), dLux Media Arts (Sydney), and Deakin University (Melbourne).
Recent projects
Abstract Vectoral Landscapes [songs] CD and download, TQN-aut, 2019
Deep dreaming landscapes abstracted through song vectors. Animal, vegetable, and mineral. Above, on, and below the ground. In the past, present, and future. All at once in and out of place.
Bastard Island [songs] CD and download, Linear Obsessional, 2019
The weather is routinely unseasonable, no reliable reports, unpredictable, set up the microphone, time enough to prepare...
subsongs [songs] CD and download, Linear Obsessional Recordings, 2017
where will, it go, such song sung low, beyond, right now, where will it go...
Deep Water Web [exhibition] multi-screen audio-visual, Steven Ball & John Conomos, 2016
Installation at Furtherfield Gallery and online at the network intersection of global environmental catastrophe capital ecologies, between points in the northern and southern hemispheres in the UK and Australia.
Film of the Same Name [film] single screen digital video, Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball, 2015
The film revisits the haunted landscapes of the 1980s Apostrophe S film trilogy, as Sanderson and Ball retrace their steps and attempt to stage a reenactment to evoke, and invoke, the fading spirits of the earlier films.
Concrete Heart Land [film] single screen digital video, Steven Ball & Rastko Novaković, 2014
The film exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, South London, marking the moment that the estate was finally lost as social housing to make way for an unjust 'regeneration' scheme.
For more see the various links below.