Ronald Bal

Error 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

3-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.

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

With 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.

From 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.