Author Archives: Frans van Lent

A Scene #14

A Scene #14: Over and Under
On Saturday December 15, 2018 at 14:20 CET I waited for a tram in southern direction, at tram stop Leuvehaven (51°54’55.625″N, 4°28’56.857″E), Rotterdam. I stepped into the first arriving tram. The tram crossed the river Maas over the Erasmus bridge. I got off the tram at the first stop on the other side of the river: Wilhelminaplein (51°54’26.72″N, 4°29’34.756″E).
I then entered the Metro station and waited at the platform for a metro train in Northern direction. I took the first arriving train, and crossed the river Maas through the tunnel. I left the train at the first stop: Leuvehaven.

Open Performance Academy | Art Science Hunger
7 December 2018
20:00 -23:00
Worm-Ubik
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam

20:00: First try-out of the participatory performance A Myopic Street View Continue reading →

A Scene #12 – #1

On this website and on Facebook I announce small events that will take place at a certain location and at a certain moment in the near future. Everybody is invited to be at the exact spot at the exact time to contribute to the scene with his/her own simultaneous activity (or inactivity).
A Scene #12
On Saturday October 13, 2018 I walked on the Bergweg, Rotterdam (on the right site) in the direction of the Gordelweg, carrying a plastic bag with oranges. At exactly 14:20 CEST, I passed the corner of the Zaagmolenstraat (51°56’08.6″N, 4°28’35.2″E), in front of Bergweg 184 A, and at that exact moment the bag teared open and the oranges spread over the pavement. I then gathered the oranges, put them in another plastic bag and walked on in the same direction.
(this scene was a repetition of A Scene #1 of October 11, 2014).

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A Scene #13
On Saturday 8 December 2018, at exactly 14:20 CET, I will publicly announce a new event with the name: ‘A Scene # 14’, on the website
fransvanlent.nl and on Facebook. Unlike all previous events, you can be part of this occurrence at any chosen location, if you are online on that specific moment.

A Performative Walk #5
A performative walk as the base, as the method and as the outcome of a process of leading and following.

A group of people walks in a random direction. The person at the front is leading. When somebody wants to change the direction, he/she walks up to the front and takes over. The group always follows. Finally the group returns to the starting point (if somebody decides so).
During the walk nobody talks and telephones are switched off!

A Performative Walk #5 takes place on Monday 26 November at exactly 8:00 pm. If you want to join, please be at Hof, 3311 XG Dordrecht at 7:50 PM. Participation is free.
A Performative Walk #5 is part of De Grootste Tentoonstelling van Dordrecht in the framework of 400 years Synode.

Printing Plant Art Book Fair
My books Unnoticed Art and TheParallelShow
will be on show at the table of Jap Sam Books.
On Sunday 25 November, 19:00 – 19:30
I will read from the book TheParallelShow.
Looiersgracht 60, 1016 VT Amsterdam (NL).
You are very welcome at the occasion.

A Dinner with Guillaume

23 November, 2018
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II
Healing Hill Art Space
Morni Hills (Badisher), Haryana, India.

I was invited to create a work for the curatorial program When Words Become Situations
In the framework of the Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II. 
I invited the responsible curator Guillaume Dufour Morin to join me for dinner.
I asked him to choose the menu and then I prepared the same dishes.

photos © Frans van Lent & B Ajay Sharma

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Chai with Guillaume
14 November, 2018

Part of the project
When Words Become Situations
curator : Guillaume Dufour Morin.
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II,
Morni Hills (Badisher), Haryana, India.

I was invited to create a work for the curatorial program When Words Become Situations
In the framework of the Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II. 
I invited the responsible curator Guillaume Dufour Morin to join me for dinner.
He then invited me to have tea with him first. I used the same recipe. Continue reading →

Printing Plant Art Book Fair
My books Unnoticed Art and TheParallelShow
will be on show at the table of Jap Sam Books.
On Sunday 25 November, 19:00 – 19:30
I will read from the book TheParallelShow.
Looiersgracht 60, 1016 VT Amsterdam (NL).
You are very welcome at the occasion.

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Open Performance Academy | Art Science Hunger
8 November 2018, 19:30
Presentation at Worm-Ubik,
Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam (NL).

Leaving no traces
I will talk about not making but doing, the work as a passing experience. Starting with the Unnoticed Art Festival in 2014 my work became less and less material. It is sometimes documented by video but is often just the textual description of an incident, leaving the reader with nothing more than the awareness of its history. In some other occasions the only left-over is the original score of the work, ready to be executed by just anyone else.
The presentation will be about the principle of leaving a minimal number of traces. In relation to that I will also tell something about TheConceptBank as a starting point for a performative attitude.

In the same occasion there will also be presentations by Chantell Hassan, Mette Sterre and Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink.
In the continuation of this series, on Thursday 22 November, I will do a second presentation and in the Final Night, on 8 December, I will do a performance. More information will soon appear on my website.

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Grote Portretten Galerij
Pictura, Voorstraat 190, 3311 BC Dordrecht (NL)
18 November – 16 December, 2018

The Grote Portretten Galerij is a show of 100 portraits of inhabitants of the city of Dordrecht.
My work Susanne de Haas in Pictura will be part of it.
You are cordially invited at the opening on Sunday 18 November at 17:00.

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Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale
29 October – 30 November, 2018
hosted by Healing Hill Art Space – HHAS
Badisher, Morni Hills,
Panchkula, Haryana, India


My work will be part of the festival and will be executed by the Canadian artist/curator
Guillaume Dufour Morin.
A report of this occasion will soon be available on this website.
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