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In the film Catalysis I investigate new relationships between nature and machine by converting 2D CT scans (Computer Tomography) into 3D ceramic prints. Now that artificial body parts can be cultivated in laboratories, the perception of the body in general, and of organs in particular, is changing. The importance of machines in health care will change drastically in the coming decades. In my research, cyborg, the cybernetic organism, plays a key role, in which the cyborg is considered a hybrid machine and organism in one. The cyborg is a model for the mechanical expansion and metamorphosis of nature in the human body.
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![Error in Defoliation]( "Error in Defoliation")
infoError in Defoliation is a porcelainperformance-installation made during thepost-academic residency Sundaymorning@EKWC. The porcelain objects will beused as performative objects in a 30minute performance.Made possible by: Sundaymorning@EKWC in Oisterwijk
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![Folding in Reverse]( "Folding in Reverse")
info3-channel video installation, sound, text. Projected on porcelain panels. Continuous loop. Logline Two dancers explore each other's bodies. Are they instructed, is it work, is it curiosity, or is it intimacy? A mesmerizing endless loop, projected on 3 screens leaves the answer to the audience.
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Moving Landscape, made by the visual artist Ronald Bal, unfolds as a multidisciplinary investigation into the concept of landscape in performance art. Bal transforms Cloud Danslab, a self-organized group and studio dedicated to the research into movement and performance art in The Hague, into a hybrid place, where performers from various disciplines (dance, circus and visual arts) explore how to represent with their body the concept of landscape. The outcome is a performance installation, shaped by sculptural and abstract dance, illustrating the connection between painting and performance art. 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
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Cyber Story - Crossing is a 15 minute film-installation, made of CT body scans and patterns formed by Dicty cells.
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![Cyber Story – Inner Body]( "Cyber Story – Inner Body")
infoThe film Cyber Story – Inner Body is a journey through my body, made with CT and MRI scans. The film is a first resultof a two year project Nature / Databody.During the project research I collaborated with scientists from the Neuro-imaging Center and the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology of the Technical University Dresden (TU Dresden) specializing in CT scans and ultra-sound.
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infoThe prints with tempera are made based on the first drawings made from sperm cells, the humanoids. It was thought then that man gave life (active) and woman was the vessel (Passive). Today the earth is still considered as a passive vessel - in low economy etc. - that man activates.
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![Logic of Events – spare parts]( "Logic of Events – spare parts")
infoThe artistic research Logic of Events –spare parts is a series of images thatexplore narrative structures in mimickingnatural body parts. Sci Fi story's of printedlimbs that connect to the nervous systemby brain-computer interface technologies,to create a self-designed body.
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Re-carving Body Plant Image is rooted inBal's interest in analysing global archivesand personal data. What is the meaning ofimage making as part of our social, culturaland political lives.
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![Potential Body’s]( "Potential Body’s")
infoWith Potential Body's, Bal creates a visualtranslation of space and body. Bal appliesshapes and lines, mathematical structuresof the urban environment as a means tounderstand the world.
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![From the Physical to the Social]( "From the Physical to the Social")
infoFrom the Physical to the Social is aninvestigation into the physical grammarand social system of the body. He invitedthe audience to adopt a posture to shapethe fiction of spectator and of performer inthe museum and in our daily environment.
Websites
Ronald Bal is a Netherlands based visual artist mainly focusing on live art, storytelling, installation and lens-based media.
www.ronaldbal.comSocial media
Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator
P.S. Performance Site Den Haag
Member of a platform, digital or otherwise
Platform BK
Het Turn Club
Member of a professional association/artists’ association
Kunstenbond
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2023 - 2025Master Education in Arts Rotterdam, Piet Zwart
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2022 - 2024Master of Interior Architecture Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
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2006 - 2010Fine Art Zwolle, CABK/ARTEZ Academie voor Beeldende Kunst diploma
exhibitions
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2023BIENALSUR 2023 BIENALSUR Virtual Venue Buenos Aires, Argentina An expansive proposal for contemporary art, culture and reflection From the south of the world we have been organising BIENALSUR, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South conceived by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), a public university in Argentina. It is a different kind of biennial: decentralised, democratic, horizontal and humanistic, embracing the issues of today's world. bienalsursedevirtual.org/ Group
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2022What concerns us/ Was uns betrifft Gallery Ursula Walte Dresden, Germany The exhibition 'What concerns us / Was uns berifft' is about the current state of our society, seen from the very personal points of view of the artists. www.galerieursulawalter.com/kopie-von-077-handpressendrucke-2021 Group
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2022RE- program Bronx River Art Center, (BRAC) New York City, United States During the exhibition, I will present my film Catalysis and have an artist talk. The works shown will be Performance Art-based works form New York-based artists and abroad. www.bronxriverart.org/ Group
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2021Intersection: Unprecedented Journey Lexington Art League Lexington , United States During the exhibition I will show my film Moving Landscape, made at Cloud Danslab in the Hague. www.lexingtonartleague.org/ Group
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2020No-body Galerie Raskolnikow Dresden, Germany Based on our residency in Dresden and Rotterdam, Lisa Maria and I made a duo exhibition that underline our work and performance galerie-raskolnikow.de/ Duo
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2020Co-creation Live Factory Prologue 2 European Culture Centre - Palazzo Mora Venice, Italy Moving. Standing. Doing simple acts. ecc-italy.eu/locations/palazzomora Group
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2019Art for Humanism Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau Dresden Exemplary works for the person of the artist - nationwide lipsiusbau.skd.museum/ Group
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2019Revolution, Hope and Imagination Museum MAAT Lisabon, Portugal re-imagine contemporary culture www.maat.pt/en Group
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2018Terytoria Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu Torun reflect on the idea and meaning of ‘freedom’. artsandculture.google.com/partner/centre-of-contemporary-art-znaki-czasu Group
International exchanges/Residencies
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2020EKWC - European Ceramic Workcenter, Oisterwijk, NL Oisterwijk, Netherlands In the Nature- / Databody project I investigate new relationships between nature and machine by converting 2D CT scans (Computer Tomography) into 3D ceramic prints. sundaymorning.ekwc.nl/
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2019C.Rockefeller Center Dresden, Germany During the Nature- / Databody research project I collaborated with scientists from the Neuro-imaging Center and the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology of the Technical University Dresden (TU Dresden) specializing in CT scans and ultra-sound. With this technique I was able to make scans of multiple body parts, including my organs and brain. www.crockefeller.org/
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2017Residency: Cloud DansLab, Den Haag Den Haag, Netherlands In Moving Landscape, Bal sharpens the relationship between painting and performance art, the figurative and the abstract, manipulation and nature. www.cloudatdanslab.nl/
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2016Studio C32 Venice, Italy Reflecting on the ‘performative body’ Ronald Bal works with words, time and body movement. veniceperformanceart.org/
Secondary art-related activities
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2019 - 2023Curator, P.S. Performance Site Den Haag On-going
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2018 - --Curator, OPA | Open Performance Academy On-going
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2013 - --On-going