The 23rd Player - A Behavioral Ball

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How can one play soccer with a ball that, far from moving in function of the kicks it receives, has its own capacity for movement, or better still, behavior? Placed on a soccer pitch amongst the players, this ball moves mostly in relation to them - avoiding them, dribbling and sometimes causing trouble by aiming for their feet. What’s more, contrary to the usual rules the players are not allowed to touch the ball; they are only allowed to try and influence its movements, to perhaps try and kick a goal.

Between sport and artistic creation, this project proposes a new take on both the rules and the central object of soccer: the ball. By elevating the status of this object and transposing onto it a rule usually found in museums – ‘don’t touch’ – the whole dispositif is turned upside down. It remains a physical activity and a game, except the action is organized according to rules that resemble ‘prison ball’ just as much as soccer.

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Images taken during the first test run of the first prototype, Wednesday 16th May 2012, during the festival La quinzaine de l'entorse and Mix'cité, University Lille 1 campus football ground.

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The 23rd Player - A Behavioral Ball
Project by Samuel Bianchini, 2012
Conception and fabrication of the first mechanical and electronic (Polytech Lille) prototype: Jean-Bernard Tritsch in collaboration with Thomas Dienne, Yohann Dhondt, Pierre Bareau and Thibault Le Gall
Technical advisor: Cyrille Henry
Project coordinator: Antoine Villeret

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