Stephanie Ballantine
The Hysterical Oracle
PREVIEW | PERFORMANCE
Friday 18th August | 7.30pm – 9.30pm
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Exhibition Open
Saturday 19th August | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 20th August | 2pm – 4pm
Monday 21st August | 11am – 2pm
Saturday 26th August | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 27th August | 2pm – 4pm
Monday 1st September | 11am – 2pmExhibition remains Open By Appointment until
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Stephanie Ballantine (b. UK. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, performance, video and design. Her field of interest includes areas such as: techno-capitalism, commoditized sexuality, political identity, and agency. In her work she embodies the roles of ‘The Alchemist’, ‘The Mystic’, ‘The Hysteric’ and ‘The Researcher’ playing with expressions of queer identity, surveillance as ‘the Gaze’, absurd, bondage, pop and trash, magical actionism, and psych-scapes.
Exhibitions, screenings and performances include ‘Linespacing’ instillation as part of Leipzig film festival produced by GAGENkino, 2015, ‘Jane’ Pantocrátor Gallery, Shanghai 2015, ‘A Moon Voyage’ at Haspel Art Centre Sofia 2014, ‘A Symposium’ at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin 2014, ‘Queer today is Not Tomorrow’ at NGBK Berlin 2014, ‘Manisensations’ at Leap Gallery Berlin 2012, ‘Accidental Sculpture’ at The Henry Moore Institute Leeds 2009, ‘Peripheral’ at Tate Liverpool 2008.
She studied studied BA Politics and Philosophy as well as FD Photography in England before moving to Berlin where she currently resides.
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WEBSITE: http://stephanieballantine.com
CONTACT: contact@stephanieballantine.com
TWITTER @imprintphotolog
Note: Unfortunately there is no other documentation for this show in the Basement Archives due to the theft of a hard-drive in our pre-cloud stage days. See link above for further information on this project.
‘The Hysterical Oracle’ is a female figure recurrent in different forms throughout history; chosen at birth she is placed in a temple as a conduit to receive visions informing the running of a future society. The temple is situated on a bed of natural gas which enters her bloodstream as she sits and describes visions in a poetic trance, from knowledge offered by the Oracle and doused with hysteria.
Stephanie Ballantine is a Leeds educated artist now based in Berlin. Having worked as part of the Peripheral collective, a pre-cursor to BasementArtsProject, circa 2008, we welcome her back with an installation featuring a series of photographic works and video piece. On the opening night there will also be a collaborative performance piece with Roma artist Delaine Le Bas.