Ronald Bal

You are cordially invited for Test Case XXIII, at Sundaymorning@EKWC in Oisterwijk, on July 3 2021 from 11:00 to 17:00. During the Test Case I will show my latest film Catalysis and a live performance, with work made during my residency at Sundaymornig@EKWC.

My film Catalysis forms the latest chapter within the Cyber Story – Series. Where a character performs in dualistic mystery holding parts of its body as both witness and victim from its own creation. In my research, the cyborg / cybernetic organism, plays a key role, in which the cyborg is considered a hybrid machine and organism in one.

Trailer: Catalysis

More information about Test Case XXIII at Sundaymorning@EKWC

Website: https://sundaymorning.ekwc.nl/
http://ronaldbal.com/

I am honored to be part of the exhibition Intersection: Unprecedented Journey. The exhibition supports the arts and healthcare in the US. During the exhibition I will show my film Moving Landscape, made at Cloud Danslab in the Hague.

Performers: Ralph öllinger, Sophia Oltmanns and Jorga Lok (circus artist), 黃祥昀 (Hsiang-yun) and Larysa Bauge (performance artist), Sonia Zini (dancer), James Hewitt (musician) Designer: Aliki van der Kruijs Filmmaker: Gemma Groot and Dorien Pfauth 

The Exhibition Intersection: Unprecedented Journey will run from March 19^th, 2021- April 23^rd, 2021 in Lexington Art League in Lexington, United States.

Link: http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/

For the online exhibition Embodied Interface (E.I.) I made a 20 minute film where I combined performance, porcelain and CT-scans as a total work of art.

During my AiR at Sundaymorning@EKWC I created new objects in ceramics that function as props in my performance-installation and film Catalysis.

More info:

https://www.embodiedinterface.com/

https://sundaymorning.ekwc.nl/

http://ronaldbal.com/

Join us in for a webinar to discuss about different visions and experiences of net.art in the 90s as well as to see three new artworks from Asian, Latin American, and European artists in respond to the issue of embodied interface.

Embodied Interface Webinar
Location: Zoom Meeting
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (GMT+08:00)

REGISTER HERE

Link:   https://mailchi.mp/c57ab3dccf52/embodied-interface-netart-webinar-4719906?e=ba35f0ea19

Looking back with great enthusiasm on a productive and special artist-in-residence at Sundaymoring@EKWC in Oisterwijk, The Netherlands. In which I was able to further develop my project Nature- / Databody and ‘Error in Defoliation’. During the residency I made 3D prints from CT-scan of my vital organs (brain, kidney, heart etc.) in porcelain. And new objects in ceramics for the performance-installation ‘Error in Defoliation’. Both projects will be further developed in 2021.

“My ultimate plan is to have myself printed”

In the early summer of 2019, Ronald Bal spent two months in Dresden as part of the exchange project that the city of Dresden, the Goethe Institut and CBK Rotterdam have had together for nearly ten years. Sandra Smets spoke with Ronald Bal about his work there and his impressions.

At the desk in his studio, Ronald Bal starts the computer and turns on a film of slowly moving spots, black and white. It is a rough version of one of the results of his artist-in-residency in Dresden. Two fertile months, which brought him a lot of new material and contacts, which enabled him to make this film. “This is an 3D scan of my body. I spent two and a half hours in a CT scan at the TU Dresden, which takes a picture every three millimeters. I now stick those photos together, this is how this film comes into being. So you slowly walk through my body. Look, the abdominal cavity. “He points. “But when you see it, it’s mainly about light, that’s how it ultimately looks.”

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https://www.cbkrotterdam.nl/en/nieuws/ronald-bal-in-dresden/

The film A Thousand and One Cuts is related to the live performance of Ronald Bal. Shown during Co-Creation Live Art Factory 2020 in Venice, Italy.

Text and editing: Ronald Bal

Thanks to:

Venice International Performance Art Week

European Culture Centre – Palazzo Mora

Dear all, You are cordially invited to the duo exhibition at Galerie Raskolnikow, on Friday January 31, at Dresden, Germany. Opening 20:00 hours.
Based on our residency in Dresden and Rotterdam, Lisa Maria and I made a duo exhibition that underline our work and performance.

Many thanks to Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, CBK Rotterdam and the City of Dresden.

Lisa Maria Baier /Dresden
Ronald Bal / Rotterdam
NO-BODY AND THE PIU PIU’S

CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY Dissenting Bodies Marking Time

European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora & Palazzo Michiel, Venice.

PROGRAM HERE

– 4 days program of performances open to the public on January 15-18, 2020, including live performance by our guest artist Ronald Bal, a Study Movie Room and Special Event Film Screenings. The culmination of the co-creation process will be open to the audience: we will transform the venue together into a dynamic performance site through a series of collective performance operas, as well as collaborative and solo performances. Presents the collective performance opera.

“Anam Cara – Dwelling Body”
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Starting from 16:00h
European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT)

You are cordially invited to RHI (Revolution Hope Imagination) from Saturday 14 – Saturday 21, September 2019. Where I show my work Re-carving Body Plant Image at MAAT, Museum for Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon.

More information: MAAT