Author Archives: Frans van Lent

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 →

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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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Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II
November 19 – November 24, 2018

Hosted by Healing Hill Art Space (HHAS)
Badisher, Morni Hills,
Panchkula, Haryana,
India

Group D, curated by Guillaume Dufour Morin
November 19 – November 24
with:
Alejandro Chêllet, Mexico
Ernesta Dir Banauskaite, Lithuania
Frans van Lent, Netherlands
Hector Canonge, USA
Janani Cooray, Sri Lanka
Jihyoung Park, South Korea
Karolina Kubik, Poland
Kristiane Nerdrum Bøgwald, Norway
Lola Lostusa, Brazil/Germany
Okty Budiati, Indonesia
Renu Bariwal, India
Satadru Sovan, India

The First Night of Experimental Boredom
Singel 222, 3311 KV Dordrecht (NL)

The First Night of Experimental Boredom took place on January 12, 2019, at Singel 222, Dordrecht, Netherlands. In the studio, throughout the building and in the city. The program started on in the studio and ended at a shop-window at By Branderhorst, Voorstraat 199 Dordrecht.

The program contained works of Andrew McNiven, David Sherry, Deirdre Macleod & William Mackaness, Duncan Poulton, Emilia Grzeczka, Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum, Frans van Lent, Greig Burgoyne, Guillaume Dufour Morin, Heinrich Obst, Ienke Kastelein, Jackson Moore, Jolanda Jansen, Joyce Overheul, Kayleigh Smetsers, Kristel Rigaud, Laura Gillmore, Manuela Porceddu, Marie Claire Gellings, Natalie Fyfe, Nico Parlevliet, Sandra Araújo, Topp & Dubio and Vonk.

The First Night of Experimental Boredom is an initiative of Unnoticed Art and 222lodge.

Open Performance Academy | Art Science Hunger
Worm-Ubik Rotterdam

Open Performance Academy (OPA) is a knowledge and practice platform for artists and theoreticians working with and from performance. OPA offers a platform for research, experiment and reflection. Artists and theorists are given the opportunity to show work in progress and to receive feedback from the audience. Conversely, the audience gets an insight into state of the art research within and to performance art. By focusing on both the artist and theoretician and the audience, OPA contributes to the development within art and the transfer of art and knowledge.

My presentations will take place on November 8 and November 22, 2018.
Performance: December 7, 2018.

TheConceptBank.org
free available performance scores

Choose a work, print out the score and carry out the work yourself,
alone or together, in the time and conditions of your choice.
Closer to the essence you will never come.

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).