From a Distance Interview
An interview at Batten and Kamp’s ‘From A Distance’ solo show in 2025 at Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
Still
Still is a video meditation of dislocation directed by Jonas Bak and Trance Films. Featured at 'From a Distance', Batten and Kamp's solo show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery Paris, 2025.
Still - By Ali Batten
Still thinking of Elsewhere
Still missing home
Still somewhere between here and there
Still turned to the past
Still with my head in the stars
Still exceeding expectations
Still craving quiet
Still needing space
Still under canopies in the rain
Still at the source of the Riwaka
Still floating on late Tekapo
Still far beneath Aoraki
Still with my feet in black sand
Still with my hands to the ground
Still in my mothers garden
Still caught in the currents
Still making the most of it
Still climbing trees
Still climbing hills
Still branches after storms
Still Tui song
Still moving Glaciers
Still Milford sounds
Still speaking to the flowers
Still speaking to her
Still feeling lost
Still knowing where home is
Still choosing to be elsewhere
Still alone in Sheung Wan
Still dusty from site
Still crowded
Still two million marching
Still hot at midnight
Still safe
Still brave
Still in the future
Still everything ever
Still barely holding it together
Still optimistic
Still lying in long grass
Still running through jungle
Still tired
Still grieving
Still quiet
Still with my face toward the sun
Still with my head in the clouds
Still lightyears away
Still children
Still beginning
Still mistaken
Still hopeful
Still natures first
Still insignificant
Still at the river mouth
Still floating
Still would give it up
Still wishing
Still writing
Still a sister
Still a daughter
Still an artist
Still somewhere between sleep
Still the morning
Still time
Steel and Stone Piano performance by Olivia Xiaolin
Domus magazine interview
Hube magazine Interview
Podcast interview for The Last Meeting of the Week
Coeval Magazine interview
Maungataniwha
Maungataniwha is an ongoing research project in Aotearoa New Zealand, where Batten and Kamp are digitizing dinosaur fossils from a near-forgotten paleontological program, documenting endangered local flora and exploring the country’s largest private nature reserve and rewilding project. Teaser video by Batten and Kamp, 2024.
Comfort Seeker Seeker
Mid-century comfort-seeking meets modern-day technological fatalism in this terrifyingly cute design-fiction warning; a hybrid of an Eames LCW and a Boston Dynamics Spot. Comfort Seeker Seeker was conceived and designed by Batten and Kamp in 2023. Animation by Services Generaux.
Sex Tape interview by Novalis Art Design
A Creative Conversation by The Botanical, interviewed by Wing Tso
Hong Kong
A short film of Batten and Kamp’s life and practice in Hong Kong in 2021. Film by Trance Films, music by Alex Purdue.