The Ball

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"Go partying with Ingvar Kenne that has visited Bachelor & Spinster Balls across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory in Australia!

In a letter to author Tim Winton, Ingvar Kenne writes: « The B&S Balls are uniquely Australian, but to me, at the bottom of it lies this universal thing. Youth taking control of their journey in a need to break with authority in their lives, and consequently abandon that control. Completely. We have lost what older cultures gifts their youth with, as a mean to both break and bond when transiting to man and woman hood, through initiating ceremonies. In Western societies it seems to be similar solutions for youth across continents, although with a different front. In the US it's Springbreak or Burning man, in Sweden we have crazy midsummer and crayfish parties where things regularly gets completely chaotic. All fuelled with alcohol and various substances to help. It has been the tradition for so long it has become a new norm. »

Tim Winton replies: « Are these really rites of passage or just franchised and endlessly repeated piss-ups after which everything and everyone is pretty much the same? I’m not sure, to be honest. And maybe I'm expecting too much. But you see the problem: once we dignify something by calling it a rite of passage we're forced to expect something of it. We quite rightly look for some larger meaning in it. And with the B&S Ball I struggle a bit, but I’m a novelist, not a sociologist or an anthropologist. »"

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Texts in English and Swedish.

96 pages - Hardcover

Journal, 2018

Format : 21 x 25 cm

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Kenne, Ingvar

Ingvar Kenne is a Swedish photographer based in Australia. His work has been exhibitied throughout the workd and selected for many awards and grants. Kenne is mostly a portrait photographer but he has also published about his travels ("Chasing Summer", Bird Press, 2004), and more recently about the Australian parties called "Bachelor & Spinster Ball" where adults party like crazy under the heavy influence of alcohol ("The Ball", Journal, 2019). © Portrait taken from the  Format Festival website (uncredited).
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