In februari 2019 I will showed my project ‘Re-carving Body Plant Image’ during Dhaka Live Art Biennale (D’lab) in in Zainul Gallery and Edge Gallery in Dhaka.
Recarving Body Plant Image is rooted in my personal interest to rethink global archives and personal data. What image-making means as part of our social, cultural and political lives. Recarving Body Plant Image focuses on the ‘affection’ and ‘alienation’ of data and images-making through modern technology.
It is with great pleasure that I invites you to the festive opening of This Art Fair where my performance and film-installation Recarving Body Plant Image will be presented, a 120 minute performance.
Recarving Body Plant Image is rooted in my personal interest to rethink global archives and personal data. What image-making means as part of our social, cultural and political lives. Recarving Body Plant Image focuses on the ‘affection’ and ‘alienation’ of data and images-making through modern technology.
In august I am attending the Summer University at PAF (Performing Art Forum) residence in France. During the residence I am working on film and performance in several context.
You are cordially invited to the performance festival TERYTORIA/TERRITORIES in Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun, Poland. On July 6 to 8 2018.
The festival will contain international artist form the Netherlands, Germany, Belarus, Poland and Norway to reflect on the idea and meaning of ‘freedom’ in the 21st century.
For the event I will create a new work that is related to the freedom and independence of our body in relation to nature and social structures.
My work L’ homme Léger will be exhibited at the European parliament till july 2019. Caroline Nagtegaal van Doorn initiated the exhibition Pimp My Room and is ambassador of the Netherlands at the European parliament.
The work L’homme Léger features in Bal’s upcoming film Shimmer (release February 2019). The film explores what humanism might mean in present state globalised Europe.
You are cordially invited to my performance Recarving Body Plant Image on April 14 at Extrapool in Nijmegen. From 20:00h to 22:00h.
An evening of performances curated by Lilia Scheerder’s long-term exploration of narratology as tool for performance. The idea of Recarving Body Plant Image is rooted in my personal interest to rethink global archives and personal data. What image-making means as part of our social, cultural and political lives. Recarving Body Plant Image focuses on the ‘affection’ and ‘alienation’ of data and images-making through modern technology.
Adres Extrapool: Tweede walstraat 5, 6511 LN at Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Open Performance Academy (OPA) is a research programme for young and established artist whose work engages, intersects with, discusses, draws upon, or is indebted to performance art. OPA organises lectures, workshops and try-out sessions, aims to create a platform for the exchange of ideas and the production of knowledges and provides artists with an opportunity to receive feedback on their work. OPA is an offshoot of Performance Art NL, founded by performance artist Ronald Bal and university based researcher and lecturer Nathanja van den Heuvel.
Events:
This early spring 2018 OPA starts with a first series of meetings dedicated to an exchange of thoughts, ideas and practices. The first series take place on Thursdays between 7:30 pm and 11 pm. The dates are: February 15, March 1, March 15, March 29 and April 5.
Collective reading
The readings will be circulated prior to the meetings.
You are cordially invited to the studio presentation Moving Landscape, on August 25, 2017 at 8 PM at artist-in-residence Cloud Danslab Den Haag.
Location: Cloud Danslab Den Haag, DCR – De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b 2518 RA Den Haag
Moving landscape unfolds as a multidisciplinary research on the concept of landscape in performance art. Artist Ronald Bal transforms Cloud Danslab into a hybrid place, where performers from different disciplines (dance, circus, and visual arts), explore embodied responses to the imagination of the concept landscape. This results in a performance installation with a sculptural and abstract dance that relate to the paintings of Mondrian.
In Moving Landscape, Bal sharpens the relationship between painting and performance art, the figurative and the abstract, manipulation and nature. By emphasizing the sensory and imaginary conditions of the painter Mondrian, a playing field arises for an encounter between different artistic disciplines.
The presentation of Moving Landscape is the first result of Bal’s research on the concept of landscape and will be developed further in the coming months into a performance-installation.
