Author Archives: Frans van Lent


Crossing.

Crossingboek1

16 stills of the film Crossing (2009).
on 16 pages (250 grs),
size: 19 X 36 cms (7,5 X 13,4 in).

The essay-text is wrapped around the book.
Design: Studio Renate Boere
500 copies printed
ISBN/EAN: 978-90-808675-2-9
© Frans van Lent 2011

The text: Een oversteek In vijf delen
(A Crossing In Five Stages)
was written by Lucette Ter Borg.
Both versions (Dutch and English) are included.

A talk about the work Crossing (PDF in Dutch),
with contributions of Antoinette Reuten, Loek van de Sande, Ton Kraayeveld, Bernd Trasberger, Marie Claire Gellings, Paul Henning and Frans van Lent.

A Scene #2: Bag

On Saturday November 15 2014, at exactly 14:20 CET, I walked into the city library (51°55’15.9″N, 4°29’18.8″E), Centrale Bibliotheek, Hoogstraat 110, Rotterdam), carrying a black cotton bag.
At the center of the hall I stopped walking and checked the bag and all the pockets of my cloths. Whatever I was looking for, I did not find it.
I waited a few seconds. Then once more I thoroughly checked the bag and my pockets. I turned around, walked back to the door (hastily) and left the building.

About Scenes:
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 #1

On Saturday October 11 2014, I walked on the Bergweg (on the right site) in the direction of the Gordelweg, carrying a plastic bag with oranges. At exactly 14:20 CET, I passed the corner of the Zaagmolenstraat (51°56’08.6″N, 4°28’35.2″E), in front of nr 184 A, and at that exact moment the bag tore 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.

About Scenes:
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).

 

Heute Morgen

Heute Morgen is a performative work, carried out on July 1st 2014, in the Kutscherhaus in Recklinghausen, Germany. During the process all visual decisions were made and then again undone. Nothing of the work is left to be shown in the exhibition, except the video documentation of the process.

Heute Morgen was part of the Via Via show,
July 4 – August 17, 2014.

Cascade

performance (3 men):

In an old uninhabited vergers house in Dordrecht:
25 jerrycans are stored on the attic, each filled with 10 litres of water.
One by one, they are carried down. Halfway the top stairs they are poured into other, empty jerrycans. The then filled jerrycans are carried one floor lower. Halfway the second stairs they are again poured into empty jerrycans. The now filled jerrycans are carried to the groundfloor.
When all 25 jerrycans arrived at the groundfloor they are one by one emptied on the pavement in front of the house.

Cascade was part of By the sweat of your brow,
an exhibition within the framework of the Urban Explorers Festival 2014

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Photo: Jaap Dambruin

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TheConceptBank.org
June 6, 2014

Some time after the successful  Unnoticed Art Festival we started up the preparations of a new initiative called TheConceptBank.org.
TheConceptBank.org is a platform to present new works of contemporary live-art in an original and innovative manner.
The bank is filled with concepts of many artists; these concepts are written as simple manuals. Visitors of the site are able to choose a concept and print it to carry out the work on a time and place of their choice.
After performing the work, the user is asked to send his/her written experiences which will then be forwarded to the artists.

Theconceptbank.org is a non-profit initiative, the use of the databank will be free for everybody. The concepts are licensed under Creative Commons. 

An Improvised Route

In the morning I walk an improvised route through the city,
in the afternoon I walk exactly the same route again.

-Unnoticed Art Festival
Haarlem, Netherlands
May 17/18, 2014