{"title":"Ben Cullen Williams","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"we-humans-are-movement","title":"We Humans Are Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eHi, this is Ben Cullen Williams. I am currently reworking a video work shown as part of the Venice Biennale in 2024. It was part of a performance directed by Sir Wayne McGregor. The work stems from a residency I took at the base of mount Enta in the summer of 2024, when Etna was erupting. Created though a combination of AI and digital rendering, the work also nods to different modes of representation of landscape within painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur world is continually connected, by atoms vibrating at various frequencies, be that an object that appears static or an explosion that ricochets into space, we are all one. Matter and energy. Quantum physics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Humans Are Movement: The Video Works\u003c\/em\u003e are a series of moving images that were first shown in a contemporary dance production directed by Wayne McGregor, in a high-touch, hi-tech collaboration that celebrates the movement at the heart of cinema, architecture and our human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe video works, explore the relationship of the body to the world, from a dissected cadaver, to the atoms within matter to explosions that vibrate into the atmosphere into pure colour and tone. Started by Williams while on a residency at the base of mount Etna, Williams was interested in the line between his body and the explosive Volcanic matter. The body destroyed to be converted in the particles and matter to expand into the atmosphere before finally moving into pure colour. Through this questioning our understanding of the body and the sense of finiteness within an interconnected world, the boundless self destruction of our current epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Cullen Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54103888658817,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/files\/WEEK1IMAGE2.jpg?v=1741197388"},{"product_id":"we-humans-are-movement-1","title":"We Humans Are Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eHi, this is Ben Cullen Williams, the March artist in residence. For my second week, I am currently developing the sound with Harrison Cargill for another video work that was shown in the same performance at the Venice Biennale as the previous work posted. Created through digitally combining my photographs of the bodies of Studio Wayne McGregor dancers and images of plastic sheeting, the corporeal hybrids corrupted by technology are emptied of their previous physical reality, becoming new digital matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur world is continually connected, by atoms vibrating at various frequencies, be that an object that appears static or an explosion that ricochets into space, we are all one. Matter and energy. Quantum physics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Humans Are Movement: The Video Works\u003c\/em\u003e are a series of moving images that were first shown in a contemporary dance production directed by Wayne McGregor, in a high-touch, hi-tech collaboration that celebrates the movement at the heart of cinema, architecture and our human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe video works, explore the relationship of the body to the world, from a dissected cadaver, to the atoms within matter to explosions that vibrate into the atmosphere into pure colour and tone. Started by Williams while on a residency at the base of mount Etna, Williams was interested in the line between his body and the explosive Volcanic matter. The body destroyed to be converted in the particles and matter to expand into the atmosphere before finally moving into pure colour. Through this questioning our understanding of the body and the sense of finiteness within an interconnected world, the boundless self destruction of our current epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Cullen Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54124454609281,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"work-in-progress","title":"Work in Progress","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlantation (working title) is a new work I am developing, here are a few small clips from the 15 minute video work, which is composed of still images taken from a film I shot in Panama on Super 8 and then digital hybrid images created with the super 8 stills and a secondary digital image set. The film was shot on the plantation my mother was born on and the secondary data set is footage from the adjacent islands that cater towards drunken tourists. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Cullen Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54149662638465,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/collections\/VIDEO_COVER_ASSET.jpg?v=1746092588","url":"https:\/\/gazell.io\/collections\/ben-cullen-williams.oembed","provider":"GAZELL.iO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}