Designed by Andrew Maynard Architects, Nebula is a mobile gallery and workspace allowing artists with disabilities to bring their work into the wider community. Simon Sellars talks to the architect about this portable project. Photography: Nic …
Visualising the City: Ash Keating and Dorian Farr on Speculative Art and Architecture in Christchurch
Ash Keating in Christchurch. Photo courtesy SCAPE. In 2010, Melbourne artist Ash Keating produced Gardensity, an installation for the SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space. Gardensity took the form of a fictional property development …
Body Architecture: An Interview with Lucy McRae
Lucy McRae’s provocative ‘body silhouettes’ reshape the human form, subjecting it to extreme vortices of pressure: from technology, the natural environment, even from raw emotion. She speaks to Simon Sellars about the inspirations driving her career.
Spatial Imagination: An Interview with Charles Holland
Charles Holland is one third of FAT Architecture. He spoke to Simon Sellars about the debate surrounding his recent remarks about architecture competitions, FAT’s print collaboration with Charles Jencks, and the novelist J.G. Ballard.
Vertical Movement: An Interview with Sir Miles Warren
Sir Miles Warren is probably New Zealand’s most famous architect. He speaks to Simon Sellars about the Christchurch earthquakes and the challenges the city faces to rebuild.
‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard
“‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard”, originally published in 032c, no. 18, winter 2009/10, pp. 126-9. Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognizable music critics around. He possesses a willingness to tackle …
‘Architectures of the Near Future’: An Interview with Nic Clear
ABOVE: ‘London after the Rain’, by Ben Olszyna-Marzys. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’. Originally published on ballardian.com, 24 December 2008. In recognition of the sophistication …
The Light-Painter of Mojave D: An Interview with Troy Paiva
ABOVE: ‘Joshua Says GO!’ by Troy Paiva. ‘A 30s twin-tail Lockheed Electra does the big sleep at Aviation Warehouse. Night, full moon, red-gelled strobe flash. Canon 20D.’ Originally published on ballardian.com, 6 June 2008. The …
Cousin Silas: Another Flask of Ballard
Originally published on ballardian.com, 3 October 2007. Cousin Silas is a producer of dark-ambient soundscapes. He has five albums to his name and a few EPs, spiking the vein of glacial electronica. His work evokes …
UFOpunk: Mac Tonnies’ Strange Blue World
Mac Tonnies is a Kansas-based writer of post-cyberpunk science fiction (recently published by the redoubtable Rudy Rucker). He’s also the author of the book After the Martian Apocalypse, a speculative search for life on the …