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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Intervalle
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.
The total distance was 892 kilometres. Continue reading
Twice
Llauro, France
May 2023
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On the same day,
I took the same walk twice.
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,
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Focus
1 May 2023
I was looking at the lens of the camera.
And in doing so, I was also looking at myself,
still hidden in the future.
Original footage recorded in 1998
SD, no sound 9.55 min.
Au Grand Pont
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