Category Archives: Collaborations

3rd Nieuwstraat Festival

The Nieuwstraat is an average street in the centre of Dordrecht. In this street you will find trees, houses, shops, terraces, a cinema and a weekly market. On an unannounced Saturday in July 2025, between sunrise and midnight, the 3rd Nieuwstraat Festival will take place.
The performances take place in everyday settings, hiding the unusual within the ordinary. Passers-by will perceive the acts but, outside of a distinctive artistic context, may not recognise them as performances. Performative concepts for the festival can be submitted by artists who feel related to the theme and principles. There are no restrictions regarding places of residence, age and backgrounds.
The works will be performed by volunteers, unannounced and without explanation. Continue reading →

The Empire’s Edge



Please watch the video fullscreen with sound on.
DV with sound, 49’05 min.

The Empire’s Edge is a composition for violin, viola, cello and double bass,
created by Hein van de Geyn.
It was inspired by Frans van Lent’s installation Muur, exhibited in the Kunstkerk in Dordrecht in 2004.
The installation Muur came about as a result of his walk along Hadrian’s Wall in 2003.

Hadrian’s Wall was built in Northern England in the second century AD
as a fortified border of the (Roman) Empire. Continue reading →

How to End

16 November – 22 December 2024
A curated exhibition in Pictura.

Kris Limbach, Diana Roig, Pim Palsgraaf, Josué Amador, Peter Terrin, Kamila Wolszczak.

For the artist starting a work is simple, attractive and always exciting. All possibilities are open, you can experiment freely. Problems are created, formulated and explored.
Solutions need only come later, and if not, it’s not a problem, at least you think so…. Continue reading →

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.
There will be no programme of consecutive performances but everything takes place simultaneously, collaborations can arise spontaneously. Continue reading →

Equinox – same but different

Het Hof, Dordrecht (NL)
March 26 2023
13:00 – 14:00

Equinox – same but different is an international event for public action for freedom for all people. Every year on the Equinox (around 20 March and 21 September), the duration of day and night is roughly equal around the world. In the spirit of cosmic equality, the event is a global connection for people performing together in public space.
This sharing of time and space brings us closer together, as a temporary (global) community to encourage, through performance art, non-violent expressions for locally specific conditions. Continue reading →