Steven Ball: 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

All Living Can Anyone Be Here [songs] Audio cassette and download, Linear Obsessional, 2020

All Living Can Anyone Be Here contains four songs and one instrumental. All but one of the songs were written and recorded during April and May 2020, two of those ('Even on a Wednesday' and 'Private Ambulance') reflect the coronavirus situation of that period, concentrating in particular on the attendant shifts in the subjective experience of space and time.

Crumpsall Riddle - Looking After The Duck [songs] CD and download, with Jude Cowan Montague, Wormhole World, 2020

Crumpsall Riddle is Steven Ball and Jude Cowan Montague. The two improvised these songs in three live sessions during August and September 2019 at the cabin at Crossmead, Mottingham. Matt Armstrong plugged in the mics and contributed electric bass. Yllos, the duck, is now living in her forever home at Spitalfields City Farm. More here.

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...

For more projects see below.

Steven Ball

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

A collection of local songs, poems, &c. &c. by William Oliver, Newcastle, 1829

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