Author Archives: Frans van Lent

Anchor

Swizerland
April 2023During a train journey from St. Moritz to Zermatt, across the Alps, I wrote continuously for eight hours.
Not to record the trip in a text, but to internalize my observations and reflections through writing.
The notes were not meant to ever be read back. After I wrote them, they lost their importance.

Anchor is related to the works Streams (2022) and Short-term memory (2019).

Hermannshöhe

Teutoburg Forest, Germany
March 2023
Hermannshöhe is a one-take real-time video recording of a picturesque spot in the Teutoburg Forest.
In the background, the artist remains audibly present.

4K-video with sound.
40:14 min.
(watch in fullscreen)

The work Hermannshöhe is related to San Juan (2010) and Idle (2013).

La Loue

Excideuil, France
February 2023

Walking the river.
An audio portrait composed of sound recorded at a series of locations,
further and further downstream.


Stereo digital audio file

Journeys

Between Rotterdam and Breda
8 December 2022

The train ran from A to B in sixty minutes.
During that time, I walked from the back to the front of the train.
The train ran from B to A in sixty minutes.
During that time, I walked from the front to the back of the train.

Trains

Between Rotterdam and Venice
October 2022

A compilation of nine audio tracks,
recorded with a contact microphone
in several trains on a trip from Rotterdam to Venice.


Mono digital audio file.

Reversed

Rotterdam-Maastricht-Rotterdam
6 June 2023

During a train journey,
I sat at a window.
I voiced what I saw outside,
and recorded it with a sound recorder.
On the return journey,
I sat in the opposite seat, wearing headphones
and as I looked outside,
I listened to the reversed audio file. Continue reading →

Focus

1 May 2023
I was looking at the lens of the camera.
And in doing so,
I was looking at myself,
still hidden in the future.

Original footage recorded in 1998
SD, no sound 9.55 min.