Author Archives: Frans van Lent

Junction


Please watch the video full screen with sound on.

The camera moves along four paths at a junction in the forest near Hautefort, France.
At the same time, through a phone call A describes what they observe
as they simultaneously make the same movement at the intersection of two roads in Chicago
during the morning rush hour.
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Someplace else

Someplace Else is a durational walk for two performers in two very different places. Adrian Wood and Frans Van Lent take a walk in their respective cities – Chicago, IL and Rotterdam, the Netherlands – taking turns calling one another to report their surroundings. While one reports what they/he sees, hears and smells from standing still in their location, the other walks and listens. They trade off, creating a rhythm of phone calls that punctuate the durational 90 minute sound walk performance.
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Equinox – same but different

Het Hof, Dordrecht (NL)
September 24 2023
13:00 – 14:00


Equinox September 2023, photo © Nico Parlevliet

Equinox – same but different  takes place at the Hof in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Everyone is welcome to participate with openness and in solidarity, embracing and embodying diversity while acknowledging each other’s individual circumstances, difficulties and conflicts.
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24 hours

14/15 June 2023

For 24 hours, I drove an improvised route,
with a 10-minute break every hour,
eventually arriving back at the starting point.
Drawing of the GPS track on a satellite photo.The drive started in Dordrecht (NL) on June 14, 2023 at 10 pm
and ended on June 15, 2023 at 10 pm.
The total distance was 892 kilometres.

24 hours is related to the works:
L’espace vingt-quatre heures (2020) and
Nycthemeron (2021).