Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

For the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change, artist Jackie Karuti has developed a new weather instrument — a part of How Clouds are Formed (2019–), a developing body of work assembled in many parts and across different locations using objects, spare parts and movements. It is presented with video and a set of mechanical actions, where a motor…

The Only Lasting Truth is Change is an extended symposium investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. Collecting all the symposium threads and projects on 19–20 November, BEK invites you to an intensive two-day programme of discussions and performances, radio broadcasts and screenings, recipes and diagrams. Streaming links: Friday 19 November18:00–22:00 CET https://vimeo.com/event/1526683 (talks, conversations and presentations) Saturday…

Online talk19 NOVEMBER 18:30Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events Curator Lucia Pietroiusti shares her reflections on the intersections of art, more-than-human paradigms and environmental justice and balance through the recent projects: Sun & Sea by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte; Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen and the climate-justice festival,…

Live talk19 NOVEMBER 19:15Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ Awne is an approach to art-making where natural farming, agroforestry, Buddhism, cosmo-centric farming, biocultural systems, forest gardening and biomimicry meet sound and art. By looking at different ways of positioning themselves as nature (instead of in nature) artists can take a different approach to their…

Online talk19 NOVEMBER 20:30Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ If humans were to die off tomorrow, planetary ecologies would still be challenged for a very long time. This is because human terraformation has interfered with many of the forms of multispecies livability that we took for granted in the Holocene. Visions of the Anthropocene as a master plan…

Video screening19 NOVEMBER 21:30Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, third floorRegister by booking a free ticket at https://bek.ticketco.events/ A video essay. “Time does not go by, it arrives” goes a Norwegian proverb, often heard among the elderly. We often ask ourselves: Do we have time? The concept of time may seem hands-on, but is very hard to define. Art has been perceived as…