Alison Ballard
Alison Ballard
Ballard’s work explores changing notions of what it means to be present, to experience something in real-time, and the impact technology is having on our sense of self via moving image, installation, audio, text, and performative works.

The Consequence of Noise and Silence (2013)
video, audio, 1 min 40 sec

An experimental documentary capturing the dislocated relationship between image and sound experienced by residents in Darwin, Australia when Cyclone Tracy devastated the city on Christmas Eve, 1974.

Enveloped in noise, residents of Darwin listened as the cyclone destroyed their homes, leaving 41,000 of it’s 47,000 inhabitants homeless. As the deafening noise subsided, they emerged from their homes to find their lives in ruins and a haunting silence in its wake.