Author Archives: Frans van Lent

Köpenicker Straße


Installation
DV with sound
03:30 min.

During a residency in Berlin in the summer of 2006, I stayed in a flat in Köpenicker Straße, Berlin-Kreuzberg.
The bedroom windows were open every night, until I woke up by the noise of car traffic around six o’clock.

I used the stereo recordings of this traffic sound in the installation ‘Köpenicker Straße’ in Pictura, in 2007.

Spin

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Dubbel (Kreuzberg)


A walk through Berlin Kreuzberg (2006),
starting and ending at Görlitzer Bahnhof.
A camera in each hand,
the two recordings superimposed
in one image.
2 combined sd-videos, no sound
14:24 min.

Related to Dubbel, Berlin Kreuzberg 2012

Shift


A walk from west to east,
a camera in each hand.
Away from the night
towards the day.
The left arm before and
the right arm after sunrise.

Afsluitdijk, the Netherlands, 2006
2 combined sd-videos, no sound
33:98 min.

Raam


Video performance, 60 minutes.
Every minute a man walks to the window, looks out of the window and walks away in exact repetition.

Presented as a video-installation at the Grenzwachturm Schlesischer Busch. Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin (D), June/July 2007

Berlin, Germany 2006
One take, DV, sound.
01’00”12

Text on the work by Svenja Moor: Letzte Überprüfung



FACTS.FIGURES

MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia
june, 2006

bijl
© Guillaume Bijl, James Ensor in Oostende ca. 1920 (2004)

In FACTS.FIGURES an integrated exhibition concept has been formulated in which the (pseudo)
documentary character of art is an important issue.
The ‘FACTS’ stand for concrete reality, which is the starting point for all artists, whereas the ‘FIGURES’ capture the final shape of their works.
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