Hi, 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.

Our 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.

We Humans Are Movement: The Video Works 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.

The 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.

Ben Cullen Williams is a London based artist, whose practice moves between mediums and modes of presentation. In his work, Williams explores the spectacle of human made alterations of our natural landscapes and corporeal world through various lenses and technological devices. He has collaborated with Wayne McGregor, Polar Explorer Robert Swan and Google Arts and Culture and MIT Media Lab amongst others. His work has been shown internationally in a range of spaces, galleries and environments. Exhibitions, performances and screenings include Musée d’arts de Nantes, CAFA Art Museum Beijing, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, Somerset House London, Shinjuku Vision Tokyo and the Venice Biennale.