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).

Rotterdam-Maastricht-Rotterdam
6 June 2023

During a train journey,
I sat at a window.
I voiced what I noticed outside,
and recorded it with a sound recorder.
On the return journey, I sat in the opposite seat,
with headphones on
and as I looked outside,
I listened to the audio file in reverse.

Mono digital audio file, reversed fragment of 60:00 min

Saint Jean de Muzols, France
May 2023

Wading upstream through the river Doux,
towards the old bridge, Grand Pont.
4K video with sound,
20.31 min.

Saint-Symphorien, France,
May 20234K video, with sound.
03.27 min.

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.

Pantà de Sau, Spain,
May 2023
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Photo

Llauro, France
11 may 2023

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In a landscape of slates and cork oaks I took a walk.

During the walk
I kept a piece of cork in my left hand,
and a piece of slate in the right hand.

Llauro, France
May 2023

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On the same day,
I took the same walk twice.

Perpignan, France
10 May 2023
in collaboration with Martine Viale

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We both hold the rope. It connects our attention.
We see each other, we see the water .
The rope in our hands follows the current,
it churns and turns, it pulls.
It leads and guides the movements of our walk downstream.

HD-video, with sound, 14:53 min.
Video and video still by Max Wyse.

La Têt 2: Rope is related to the work
La Têt (2022)

Bonin, Lac de Panneciere, France
May 2023

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I found a random composition of logs under a sawn-off tree
and accurately mirrored the arrangement.

Bertogne, Belgium,
May 2023

A microphone,
on the boundary between air and water,
slightly touching the surface of the stream.

One-screen video installation,
video loop, 12 min., with sound.

Swizerland
April 2023During a train journey from St. Moritz to Zermatt, across the Alps, I wrote continuously for eight hours.
Not to record the trip in a text, but to internalize my observations and reflections through writing.
The notes were not meant to ever be read back. After I wrote them, they lost their importance.

Anchor is related to the works Streams (2022) and Short-term memory (2019).

Bernina (CH)
April 5 2023.

Click on the image to enlarge.Photos taken during a train journey across the Alps.

Teutoburg Forest, Germany
March 2023
Hermannshöhe is a one-take real-time video recording of a picturesque spot in the Teutoburg Forest.
In the background, the artist remains audibly present.

4K-video with sound.
40:14 min.
(watch in fullscreen)

The work Hermannshöhe is related to San Juan (2010) and Idle (2013).

Excideuil, France
February 2023

Walking the river.
An audio portrait composed of sound recorded at a series of locations,
further and further downstream.

Stereo digital audio file

Between Rotterdam and Breda
8 December 2022

The train ran from A to B in sixty minutes.
During that time, I walked from the back to the front of the train.
The train ran from B to A in sixty minutes.
During that time, I walked from the front to the back of the train.

Between Rotterdam and Venice
October 2022

A compilation of nine audio tracks,
recorded with a contact microphone
in several trains on a trip from Rotterdam to Venice.

Mono digital audio file.

Between Düsseldorf and Munich
23 October 2022.
In a train,
running at high speed,
I moved as slowly as possible.