BLOB is a multidisciplinary collective based in The Netherlands consisting of artists Sophie Waller, Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy and Biyi Zhu. Through the fabrication of different technologically bound spaces BLOB’s aim is to examine the physical encounter between these two entities, investigating the consequences of this relationship in terms of both the possibilities and limitations it can offer the body.
members of BLOB (2025)
control.
‘control.’ (2025) is the third performance by BLOB, which was performed during the Convergence conference on Co-creative Strategies in Interdisciplinary Artistic Practices in March 2025. ‘control.' is a performance piece which uses the framework of our ‘UnderConstruction’ project, exploring the intersection of the body and technology. Using blob tracking technologies with Isadora, we investigate what it means to input our bodies and submit our control to a system of our own creation.
Three bodies enter a system. Who is in control? Whose decisions are we making? We begin. We end. What is our purpose?
rehearsal pictures of 'control.' (2025)
In/Out
video from performance of 'In/Out'
In/Out (December 2024) was the second performance by BLOB performed at the 4bid Gallery in OT301 in Amsterdam. In/Out used similar principles as UnderConstruction while implementing the use of persona’s to alter the experience of entering the system of In/Out.
pictures from performance of 'In/Out' at 4Bid Gallery Amsterdam (2024)
UnderConstruction
interface of Max/MSP used during production
BLOB’s first work was developed during the RAIVE AI summer school at DeSingel Arts Centre in Antwerp in September 2024. The work was titled ‘UnderConstruction' and investigated the relationship between the body and technology using Max/MSP ‘UnderConstruction’ creates an alternative space where the human body and technology are fundamentally linked. Each movement triggers a sound, each sound triggers a movement. Four bodies attempt to discover how this space works, what are its rules, how can they use it, how can they abuse it? By misusing body capture algorithms and computer programming, ‘UnderConstruction’ investigates the consequences of the ever-vanishing line between body and machine.
rehearsal and performance pictures of UnderConstruction (2024)
camera setup on ceiling for blob tracking