One of the more enduring misconceptions surrounding the work of J.G. Ballard is that it operates in the classical dystopian narrative mode, [1] supposedly mining pessimism, repression and the negativity of a post-industrial age.
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… Read More »‘Architectures of the Near Future’: An Interview with Nic Clear
Photo: Simon Sellars. Originally published on ballardian.com, 11 November 2008. Sorry for the long absence — I promised ‘daily updates’, well, that didn’t happen. It’s… Read More »Kosmopolis 08: Landing Gear
‘Tohoku Dreaming’, originally published in Flightless, Footscray: Lonely Planet Publications, 2008. The last job they gave me was book-ended by madness. It began somewhere in… Read More »Tohoku Dreaming
> Originally published in the catalogue for the exhibition ‘J.G. Ballard, Autopsy of the New Millennium’, held at the CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, October 2008. The… Read More »‘Negative Acoustic Space’: Ballardian Sound Art
by Simon Sellars an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer.… Read More »A Whirlpool with Seductive Furniture: The John Foxx Interview
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.… Read More »The Light-Painter of Mojave D: An Interview with Troy Paiva
All photography by Simon Sellars. Originally published on ballardian.com, 26 April 2008. In May 2007 I found myself in England for the J.G. Ballard conference… Read More »‘Paradigm of nowhere’: Shepperton, a Photo Essay
Originally published in The Australian, 10 November 2007. All photography by Simon Sellars. I THE room has no windows. It’s dank, pitch-black and deathly still.… Read More »Sealand: On the Heap
I was recently asked about my involvement in the Liquid Architecture festival, so I thought I’d explain it here. Liquid Architecture originated in 2000 at… Read More »Liquid Architecture: In the Beginning