[Frameworks] *¨°¨* Steven Ball - Travelling Practice - Directors Lounge Screening - 27.10. * ¨°¨*

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening

Steven Ball
Travelling Practice
video works
Thursday, 27 Oct. 2011
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte


Travelling Practice
Digital video works by Steven Ball 2003 - 2010.
These works travel near and far, across physical 
and virtual space using material collected en 
route. Steven Ball's video work is radically 
contemporary in its appearance. He generally uses 
his own camera footage, his own voice as text, 
and with it a different layer of discursive 
material. His audio-visual material appears to be 
straight, clear and sharp, but the themes the 
artist is concerned with are less easy to 
encompass. In very short it may possibly be 
described as an interest in landscape and the 
politics of its reproduction.

It may not be immediately obvious that Steven 
Ball's work has been much influenced by his 
experiences in Australia. He lived in Melbourne 
for 12 years from 1988 to 2000, where he was a 
very active member of the local art and super-8 
film scene. Upon returning to live in London, he 
made another decisive move to the then "new 
medium" of digital video. Another idea he brought 
in his luggage was the intellectual debate around 
native Australian thinking and the respect for 
traditional beliefs and myths. Ball's critical 
reflection on the seemingly unquestionable 
"truths" of the Western world may be related to 
this discussion.

While using the straight and accessible language 
of digital video, Steven Ball subverts easy 
consumption by cautious diversion of our viewing 
expectations. It thus will not only be an 
absorbing viewing experience but an interesting 
discussion is to be expected. Steven Ball is 
coming from London to personally present the 
program.
(Klaus W. Eisenlohr)


Program:
Metalogue (26:37, 2003),
Direct Language (10:00, 2005 - 2008),
The Ground, the Sky, and the Island  (7:45, 2008),
Aboriginal Myths of South London (10:27, 2010),
Personal Electronics (26:00, 2010)

Artist Links:
home: http://www.steven-ball.net
blog: http://directobjective.blogspot.com
videoblog: http://directlanguage2010.blogspot.com
Public Water: http://www.publicwater.net

More infos:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
http://www.z-bar.de/Inhaltsseiten/kulturprogramm.html

Direct Programme Link:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesStevenBall.html

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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany



email:			klaus at richfilm.de
and film production:		http://www.richfilm.de


phone:			int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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