Welcome to Hollingsville
Ken Hollings hunting for non-people. Image via. This is an early draft of the foreword I wrote for Ken Hollings’ book The Bright Labyrinth: Sex,… Read More »Welcome to Hollingsville
Simon Sellars
Foreword to Applied Ballardianism
I wrote the following text in 2017. It was designed as the “foreword” to Applied Ballardianism, written from the perspective of the fictional Dr Ricardo… Read More »Foreword to Applied Ballardianism
Purple Light
Published in Happy Hypocrite 8: Fresh Hell. Edited by Sophia Al-Maria. Featuring William Gibson, Mckenzie Wark, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Monira Al Qadiri, Stephanie Bailey, Alex Borkowski, Judy Darragh, Navine… Read More »Purple Light
Journey to the Centre of Google Earth
This essay was commissioned by Anne Hilde Neset for Only Connect Festival Of Sound 2014: J.G. Ballard. It was published in the Only Connect catalogue,… Read More »Journey to the Centre of Google Earth
Red-dirt Voodoo: Rebuilding Australia’s Northwest
Originally published in Architectural Review Asia-Pacific magazine #128: New Civic Realms. All photography by Simon Sellars unless stated otherwise. In my time as AR editor, I never… Read More »Red-dirt Voodoo: Rebuilding Australia’s Northwest
AR 128: New Civic Realms (Summer 2012/2013)
Editorial by Simon Sellars: While composing this, my final editor’s letter, Federation Square’s 10-year anniversary rolled around. As Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis recall (p92),… Read More »AR 128: New Civic Realms (Summer 2012/2013)
AR 127: The Residential Issue (October/November 2012)
Editorial by Simon Sellars: AR’s annual Residential issue is always a favourite with readers, no surprise as the temper of the times in Australia can… Read More »AR 127: The Residential Issue (October/November 2012)
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… Read More »Visualising the City: Ash Keating and Dorian Farr on Speculative Art and Architecture in Christchurch
Extreme Metaphors: ‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’
‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’ by Simon Sellars. Introduction to Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967–2008, edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara, Fourth Estate, 2014. I… Read More »Extreme Metaphors: ‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’
‘Zones of Transition’: Micronationalism in the work of J.G. Ballard
Map of Lunghua (Lunghwa) civilian camp, Shanghai. Courtesy Rick McGrath. This essay by Simon Sellars was originally published in J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions, Jeannette… Read More »‘Zones of Transition’: Micronationalism in the work of J.G. Ballard