Saturday 2 December 2023
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
At 2.30pm, I stood still and unmoving in the square.
Around me, people were moving in their own directions. Continue reading
Category Archives: Works
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 Adrian describes what they observe
as they make an equal movement at the intersection of two roads in Chicago
during the morning rush hour.
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Points of view
The treetops in the forest,
downwards from above
and upwards from below. 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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Sky between us
We were facing each other,
500 kilometres apart,
simultaneously filming the sky between us.
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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. Continue reading
Reversed
Rotterdam-Maastricht-Rotterdam
6 June 2023
During a train journey,
I sat at a window.
I voiced what I saw outside,
and recorded it with a sound recorder.
On the return journey, I sat in the opposite seat,
wearing headphones
and as I looked outside,
I listened to the audio file in reverse. Continue reading
Focus
Looking at the lens of the camera.
And by doing that I was looking at myself,
as yet hidden in the future.
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La Têt 2: Rope
Perpignan (F)
10 May 2023
in collaboration with Martine Viale
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Duet
La Puebla de Castro, Spain
14 May 2023
From the trees overhanging the path came the sound of a nightingale.
I recorded the sound with my phone and then played it loudly.
The nightingale responded and sang a duet with its own captured song. Continue reading