Still Point, Turning World
Ben Joseph Andrews, Emma Roberts, Gilles Jobin & Susana Panades Diaz / Emma Roberts & Ben Joseph Andrews / Australia & Switzerland
An intimate audio-visual performance exploring the infinite complexity and interconnectedness of our ever-moving world, framed through the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey and the lived experience of disabled artist Ben Joseph Andrews.
Man walking
Man jumping
Man running as the planet spins at 1670 kilometres per hour.
Artist Ben Joseph Andrews lives with a vestibular disability in which his body reads external rhythms and currents of movement (the rush of a passing car, the ripple of the leaves in the wind) as his own, along with retaining motion memory of past actions. These conflicting signals often lead to debilitating vertigo, dizziness and misbalance – but also mean he is hyper-attuned to the myriad nested ecologies of movement we exist within and leave behind.
Still Point, Turning World is a motion-responsive immersive performance rooted in this experience, reframing the mechanics of human locomotion into a meditation on embodiment and perception. Drawing on the foundational visual language of pioneering 19th-century chronophotographer Étienne-Jules Marey, Still Point reclaims and recontextualises the movement study – not as scientific dissection, but as radically intimate self-portraiture – by placing the disabled body at the centre.
Led by Ben as solo performer in motion capture (a technology itself descended from Marey’s research), Still Point Turning World weaves together personal storytelling, crip tech and history to explore the beautiful impossibility of separating ourselves from our environment.
