Drained Granny Pools
By Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •
Category: architecture, Ballardosphere, drained swimming pools
A group of Sydney architects are doing their best to rob us of a Ballardian future.
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Spanish Ghost Cities
By Simon Sellars • Oct 15th, 2008 •
Category: architecture, Ballardosphere, drained swimming pools, entropy, urban decay
Solveig Nordlund’s Ballard adaptation, Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude, is rooted in reality, as this report on Spain’s ghost towns demonstrates.
Ballardoscope: some attempts at approaching the writer as a visionary
By Jordi Costa • Jul 26th, 2008 •
Category: Alain Robbe-Grillet, America, autobiography, Barcelona, Bruce Sterling, deep time, drained swimming pools, features, flying, hyperreality, inner space, literature, medical procedure, science fiction, sexual politics, Shanghai, Shepperton, space relics, speed & violence, Steven Spielberg, surrealism, technology, war, WWII
Jordi Costa, the curator of J.G. Ballard: Autopsy of the New Millennium, currently exhibiting at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, gifts us this incisive analysis of the major themes in Ballard’s work. Accompanying the essay is the alternate version of the exhibition’s promo trailer.
Drained London
By Simon Sellars • Jun 30th, 2008 •
Category: architecture, Ballardosphere, drained swimming pools, entropy, photography, Shanghai, urban decay, visual art
Drained swimming pools are a staple in Ballard’s work, and also the subject of photographer Gigi Cifali’s latest series.
